third-place finish
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- After a tough race, she celebrated her third-place finish among hundreds of competitors.
- second- and third-place finish
- consecutive third-place finishes
- team to a third-place finish
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William Smith again swept the top three spots, with Sherwin claiming second in 1:07.20 and Mendez earning a third place finish in 1:08.87.
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Morse: Pretty sure we'll pull off a third-place finish.
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That record earned it a third-place finish in the conference.
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The women earned 90 points in their third-place finish thanks to solid scoring across the board.
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My current aim is a third-place finish at the very least, with a decent challenge for the second spot, which carries a playoff spot.
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Last year, the 6-footer led Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy to a third-place finish in the Ohio state tournament.
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The Ducks still are riding high from a school-best third-place finish at the Pac-10 Championship.
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A boat led the way for Drexel in the 27-team event with a third-place finish and a time of 15:08.75.
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The women's team looks to build on its back-to-back third-place finishes at the NCAA Championships and a 165-88 victory in their opening meet against Utah.
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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) The Buzz: Pawlenty was a short-lived presidential candidate, quitting in the summer after a third-place finish in the Iowa straw polls.
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Morphology
third-place + finish
The meaning 'the achievement of coming in third position' is directly and transparently derivable from the constituents: 'third' (ordinal) + 'place' (position) combined with 'finish' (the end/result of a race). This is a regular compositional pattern (cf. 'first-place finish', 'second-place finish') that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the words will understand it.
Etymology
The noun third-place finish comes from sports and races: when someone crosses the finish line in third place, they stand on the third step of the winners' podium, so the phrase means 'coming in third' in a competition.