Words similar to horse-race

Example sentences for: horse-race

How can you use “horse-race” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Horse-race journalism ignores whether charges are true and focuses instead on whether they're damaging.
Horse-race journalism has more or less the same effect.
I've heard far worse at other press conferences dominated by local TV loudmouths asking endless stentorian variations on the essential horse-race query "Who's going to win?"
News ought to shy away from horse-race headlines such as "Caltech Comes out on Top."