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[Bernard W. Kane]

Have Listmembers encountered the fairly recent usage of "sophomore" to mean:
the second of a sequence
(analogous to "freshman" meaning the first, the initial one -- as in "your
freshman --followed by your sophomore-- year in college)?

I've collected these examples
:
Mike Nichols's sophomore film -- Villag Voice 2/18/97
Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD -- TIME 6/9/97
Maybe it's a case of sophomore slump -- NYTimes BookRev 1/11/98
his sophomore album's most memorable moments -- Village Voice 4/14/98
routed any fear of a sophomore jinx -- Vanity Fair March 99
one sure thing: the sophomore jinx -- TIME 8/16/99

But still have not been able to convince the dictionary editor I report to
that this is a legitimate if Informal/Slangy addition to the vocabulary.

Bernie Kane
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