How to Use popularity contest in a Sentence
popularity contest
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But of course, private companies don’t face the high-stakes popularity contest of the stock markets every day.
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Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
17 Sep. 2025
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The rankings do have some elements of a popularity contest, Harris said.
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Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Oct. 2025
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It’s been easy to maintain that vow, given that in the 13 years since, the music festival has become a popularity contest.
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Anna Haines,
Vogue,
23 Sep. 2025
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Democrats don’t expect that to work, but they’ve been rattled by the GOP’s Youngkin-Spanberger popularity contest.
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David Weigel,
semafor.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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Is this basically a popularity contest?
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Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
16 Dec. 2025
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The relative success or failure of the next fashion IPOs is going to depend on the company, the market at the moment and the popularity contest that can steer investments.
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Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
29 June 2026
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One popularity contest that Hamnet did win was the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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The rivalry between the two wrestling organizations would become known as the Monday Night War, a particularly intensive popularity contest through the 1990s.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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One 27-year-old day trader, Foster McCoy, pocketed $10,000 in just a few hours by wagering that Google’s Gemini would beat GPT-5 in a popularity contest.
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Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
18 Aug. 2025
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