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- noun Plural form of
champion-elect .
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Examples
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We may have to elect some new champions-elect.88 mins: Figueroa misjudges a bouncing City clearance on the half-way line, punching the ball with a raised fist as it flew over his head.
Wigan Athletic 0 Manchester City 1 | minute-by-minute report 2012
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These are our champions-elect, playing Wigan, dammit.
Wigan Athletic 0 Manchester City 1 | minute-by-minute report 2012
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Tottenham are nine points behind the leaders, Manchester City, who beat them 5-1 at White Hart Lane at the beginning of the season but Redknapp suggested that Roberto Mancini's team were far from being champions-elect.
We can win the Premier League, says Tottenham's Harry Redknapp 2011
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They are now pursuing Young, another target of Dalglish and the director of football, Damien Comolli, and have emerged as favourites to sign the £15m-rated England international despite competition from United, the Premier League champions-elect.
Liverpool edge ahead of Manchester United in £15m race for Ashley Young 2011
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To him, City cannot be considered as champions-elect.
Arsène Wenger hopes Arsenal can prove him right over Owen Hargreaves 2011
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The strategy, apparently devised by the players themselves, of uniting James, Wade and Bosh on one team, has finally jelled them into champions-elect.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Roger I. Abrams 2011
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The strategy, apparently devised by the players themselves, of uniting James, Wade and Bosh on one team, has finally jelled them into champions-elect.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Roger I. Abrams 2011
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But it looks like Cardiff have the tougher tests to come and, if that is being unduly negative, it is hard not to be so after witnessing the loss of two precious points against the Championship's champions-elect.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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James Lawton: Dagg leads assault as champions-elect touch greatness
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On Sunday, an impressive 3-0 win away to Eintracht Frankfurt saw Mirko Slomka's occupy the space behind runaway champions-elect Borussia Dortmund.
SI.com 2011
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