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But if that is absent, your rivals’ failure is a perfectly acceptable consolation prize.
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Rory Smith, New York Times, 17 May 2024
Today’s challenges would be familiar to the reformers who fought for the Child Labor Amendment a century ago and lost, and who accepted the FLSA as a consolation prize.
—TIME, 13 May 2024
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Rory Smith, New York Times, 17 May 2024
Today’s challenges would be familiar to the reformers who fought for the Child Labor Amendment a century ago and lost, and who accepted the FLSA as a consolation prize.
—TIME, 13 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for consolation prize
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“Consolation prize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consolation%20prize. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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