tiebreaker
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈtaɪˌbreɪkər/
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desempate
- In the tennis tournament, a sudden-death tiebreaker was used to determine the winner after the match ended in a tie.
Next up, as a tiebreaker, we have the Chinese gender calculator.
- Next up, as a tiebreaker, we have the Chinese gender calculator.
- Had we tied, we would have been world champions because we had the stronger, we won the tiebreaker and we weren't able to recover from the from the error.
- So ESTA, there's either a tiebreaker called MIGO or.
Examples
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The winners were declared through a tiebreaker: Elwin Coll, Tom Hatfield, Larry Yates, and Dale Nagata.
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Since the Packers beat the Bears in their first meeting this year, they hold the tiebreaker for now.
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-The talent show is always the tiebreaker event.
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Each one of us had to serve as a tiebreaker.
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And as mayor, I get to cast the tiebreaker.
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Only after considering these things are the test scores considered, and they are usually applied only as a tiebreaker.
Academic text (1994) -
The Orioles would host a tiebreaker for the East Division.
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The league tiebreaker in the event of three-way ties is a coin flip.
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We counted all the votes, and we have a tiebreaker between Chai and Isabel.
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In a nutshell, the Yankees hold the tiebreaker over the Rangers with a 4-3 head-to-head record.
Blog text (19)
Synonyms
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2.8
An extra period of play to break a tie
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3.0
Time added to a tied game to decide the winner
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3.1
Extra time played after normal time when the score is tied to decide a winner
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Morphology
Etymology
Tiebreaker comes from two simple words, tie ('an equal score') and breaker ('something that ends or separates'). So a tiebreaker is an extra game or method that 'breaks' the tie and finds the winner.