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neither a loser nor a winner, inescapably more pathetic, less evocative of empathy, less romantic than winner or loser. The Hollywood starlet had been attracted to champions and to down-and-outlaws, but the milquetoast also-ran in his Ford Pinto didn't even register beyond her retina.
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The ugly girl in a group of four or five hot girls. It's from
the horse racing term for a horse that did not win, place or show. Her friends are hot, but she's an also-ran
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one with little talent or success; a contestant who loses the contest Cold Mountain look like it's on its way to being an Oscar also-ran.
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