Usually means: Participants who do not win.
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  1. also-rans: Merriam-Webster
  2. also-rans: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. also-rans, also-rans: Collins English Dictionary
  4. also-rans: Wordnik
  5. also-rans: Wiktionary
  6. also-rans: Dictionary.com
  7. also-rans: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. also-rans: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (also-ran)

noun:  A person or animal who competed in a race but did not win.
noun:  (figuratively) A loser; a person or thing soon to be forgotten.
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