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Example sentences for: semifinal

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If Bauer wins the social conservative quarterfinal and the conservative semifinal, he gets to run as the "Reagan" candidate against "Bush-Gore" moderation on abortion, Hollywood, China, and other hot-button issues.
He can target Forbes, knowing that if he prevails, either Bush or Dole will have vanquished the other in the moderate semifinal.
The French press recovered from its gloom over the European ruling against France in its Mad Cow War with the British and found something to celebrate in France's astounding semifinal victory over the New Zealand "All Blacks" Sunday in the Rugby World Cup tournament in Britain.
Commentators were set to anoint Williams the next Tiger Woods, but her father screwed it up by calling her semifinal opponent a "white turkey" and portraying the opponent's collision with Williams during a changeover as "a racial thing."
Indeed, Dole's success at Ames arguably helps Bauer by giving Bush a semifinal contest.