"sprint finish" meaning in All languages combined

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2016, Michael McEwan (main author, maybe some other runner actually wrote this bit), Running the Smoke: 26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon:",
          "text": "It was the first marathon I'd ever taken part in – and, unbelievably, I won. I needed a sprint finish to do it, too. Honestly, there couldn't have been anything more than the thickness of a vest.",
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        {
          "ref": "2021, Emma Carney, Jane E Hunt, Hard Wired: Life, Death and Triathlon:",
          "text": "It was a sprint finish and I won by a tiny margin, but I beat some notable senior national level runners for the first time",
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        "A sprint at the end of a race, usually to decide the winner."
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        {
          "ref": "2023, Hayley Quinn, Do This, Not That: Dating:",
          "text": "If you need to make a sprint finish to your date or get held up in traffic, this will just add to the pressure!",
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      "glosses": [
        "A hurried commotion at the end of a long process"
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        "(by extension) A hurried commotion at the end of a long process"
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  "word": "sprint finish"
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          "text": "It was the first marathon I'd ever taken part in – and, unbelievably, I won. I needed a sprint finish to do it, too. Honestly, there couldn't have been anything more than the thickness of a vest.",
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        },
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        "A sprint at the end of a race, usually to decide the winner."
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