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Examples of shoo-in in a Sentence
a shoo-in for the position of secretary of state
Recent Examples on the Web
At first blush, Gabe Evans would seem like a shoo-in for this race.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 24 June 2024
Listen to this article Connecticut Sun star Alyssa Thomas was a shoo-in to make the 2024 Paris Olympic team after her MVP runner-up season last year, but Thomas was hardly on USA Basketball’s radar until after the Tokyo Games in 2021.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
And in any other year, Joshua Harmon’s searing Prayer for the French Republic could be a shoo-in.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 13 June 2024
Brunson, a shoo-in for All-NBA honors this season, has come up big in this very moment time and time again for the Knicks, who willed their way to the East’s No. 2 seed in large part thanks to the star guard’s heroics.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
This song is a dramatic, emotional, annoying, definitively ’80s earworm, and was therefore a shoo-in for the Best Original Song category.
—Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
A little more than two years ago, Argentine President Mauricio Macri looked like a shoo-in for reelection.
—Bruno Binetti, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2019
While Biles appears to be a shoo-in for the Olympics, the four other teammates and two alternates are yet to be determined.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 May 2024
Thus, a horse or a person who is an easy winner is known as a shoo-in.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1937, in the meaning defined above
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“Shoo-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoo-in. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
shoo-in
nounˈshü-ˌin
: one that is a certain and easy winner
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