Semi-finalist

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  1. 1
    Somebody or something that appears in a semi-final of a competition.

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"Tierney Sutton began singing in musical theatre and conservatory choirs in her native Wisconsin. It was years later, while majoring in Russian at Wesleyan University in Illinois, that she first discovered jazz. A semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition, she released her first solo album, Introducing Tierney Sutton, in 1999."

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