It's even more amazing that Accorsi was in the middle both times: the apparent winner yesterday, the loser two decades ago.

Typifying Seles's frustration was an apparent winner she hit in the final game of the match.

Time and again, Williams ran down apparent winners.

They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next.

Even the most apparent winners are being singed.

On primary night, I was the apparent winner by 288 votes.

Lenihan became the only candidate from his party to date to lose the presidency, having begun the campaign as the apparent certain winner.

Errors are common, he said, and the apparent winners in tight contests could end up the losers when the enumeration is over.

It would have been the only time since the race began in 1911 that an apparent winner had his victory taken away.

Rarely has one man put more apparent winners back into play in a single afternoon.