in the second place
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Tour favorite Michael Matthews of Australia, who began the day in the second place, dropped his chain at the start of the final climb and now is out of contention.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Whatever is the consequent—that is, whatever is in the second place of a conditional—is necessary for that particular antecedent.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, the late J.D.
From Slate • Aug. 11, 2019
In the mathematics and computer science field there is a weird anomaly: The Turkish university Ege is in the second place, after Stanford and before Harvard.
From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2013
“Now, my dear kitchen page, just listen. In the first place, I know Arthur: in the second place, I know Agravaine. Do you think I ought to be afraid of him?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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