noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a consolation prize (= one given to someone who has not won )
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The runner-up will get a consolation prize of a camera.
consolation prize
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Ten runners-up received a T-shirt as a consolation prize.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
little
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The fact that I can write this is little consolation , he wrote.
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I had no answers and precious little consolation to offer him to mitigate the facts.
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But that's little consolation for staff at Tewkesbury, or the town's economy.
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Others are owed much more, but that's little consolation .
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But that will offer little consolation to the company's long-suffering shareholders.
only
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The only slight consolation is the plan to develop the site once the works are completed.
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The only consolation was a crowd at the Harvey Hadden Stadium of 2,581, boosted by visiting fans.
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The only consolation is that he wouldn't have felt a thing.
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The only consolation was that a series of valuable recces had been carried out in an area they had not previously visited.
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The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant.
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The only minor consolation was that prices had fallen just after the war, though that situation was not to last long.
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My only consolation was that, much to my astonishment, the bird dropped the fish.
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The only consolation was that this was a slight improvement on 1987 when Dagenham fell 14 percent short of target.
small
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This is small consolation for her family, who she feels have been robbed of a healthy husband and active father.
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Still, all those years together are probably small consolation , if any, to him right now.
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And if he too was stumped, it would be no small consolation to my ego.
■ NOUN
goal
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And the oldies get a consolation goal off the woodwork but the ref says it's all over.
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Craighton added a fifth for Chatteris and Dave Lee netted a consolation goal for the Shrimpers four minutes from time.
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Ling and Martin were the scorers, and their goalkeeper, Sansome, saved a penalty before Juryeff's late consolation goal .
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Green scored from a penalty stroke and a fine open-play goal before Yvonne Ayshford got Midlands' consolation goal almost on time.
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Colin Johnson scored Dartford's consolation goal .
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Paul Wharton got the consolation goal .
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With two minutes left Sneddon scored a consolation goal for Banbridge.
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Comrades however had the last say when Dean Gordon grabbed a consolation goal for them on the stroke of full time.
prize
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Hendry, who compiled a clearance of 123 in the tenth frame, collected the consolation prize of £14,000.
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The consolation prize for picking four of six numbers in Lotto also is predetermined.
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A merger with Rediffusion for the weekday contract was a consolation prize for them both.
■ VERB
find
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In Drenthe, feeling more than ever the despised outcast, he found consolation in a human resting place.
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Like Kathy, she had found great spiritual consolation at Holy Trinity in the wake of a broken marriage.
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Aha, he thought, hoping to find some consolation in this.
offer
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It offers meagre consolation for Mr Barak after Monday's killing in Jerusalem.
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In the meantime, the lights of the Crown Hotel offered some consolation .
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Perhaps if I tried to offer him physical consolation for his imminent loss of Carlo?
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Some one had said that nowadays doctors had to double as priests, offering general consolation and advice to their patients.
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I will offer the best consolation I can.
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But that will offer little consolation to the company's long-suffering shareholders.
score
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Colin Johnson scored Dartford's consolation goal.
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In the final minute Gala prop Timmy Walker scored a consolation try which Maitland converted.
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With two minutes left Sneddon scored a consolation goal for Banbridge.
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Darlington scored a late consolation goal through Paul Adamson.
take
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It was finished, obviously, and he had to take consolation in the fine line be-tween biology and spirit.
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Again, he took consolation in the larger picture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was difficult to say goodbye, but I took some consolation from the fact that I would see her again at the end of the year.
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It was some consolation to know that he could take the exam again.
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My one consolation is that she died peacefully.
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Students sought consolation from school counselors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I argued, I fought, but he wanted to believe that happiness was impossible; it gave him some strange consolation .
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Nothing like a consolation for a dreary, drafty meal.
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Perhaps if I tried to offer him physical consolation for his imminent loss of Carlo?
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The only consolation was a crowd at the Harvey Hadden Stadium of 2,581, boosted by visiting fans.
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The only consolation , I think she was killed instantly.
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The only slight consolation is the plan to develop the site once the works are completed.
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They had to settle for three consolation points, leaving them second three points below Gresford.