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
But the same way he’d become a drummer in the first place was how he became a drummer in the second place: He practiced.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2017
In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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