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- n. Someone who competes with one or more other people
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who contends; a contestant.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who contends; a combatant; a disputer; a wrangler.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the contestant you hope to defeat
Another title contender, Fernando Alonso, had his title hopes thwarted by his inability to pass Vitaly Petrov.
They're just not the type of franchise players a team can build a title contender around.
But Tony Stewart proved Monday that everybody is a title contender when, days after crossing himself off a list of viable threats to win the championship, he snapped a 32-race winless streak with his victory at Chicago.
Even worse, he absolutely did not sound like a title contender on Sunday.
Busch was a title contender at the start of the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, and he opened it tied with Harvick as the top seed.
It continued with the bizarre, as in why in the world did a title contender in Boston act like a small-market club in dealing its glue guy, Kendrick Perkins?
Well, its a tough one, but i feel Chelsea would be a title contender to ManU more than Man City.
Fernando Alonso expects Ferrari to be a title contender in 2012.
But three years after the arrival of Rivers, when Boston became a title contender by acquiring Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, Pierce was a fully formed star who helped win in a variety of ways.
But all things appear to be equal at the moment, and Kurt Busch's Penske teammate Brad Keselowski had a marvelous summer, developing into a title contender and a news media darling.