photo finish vs win

photo finish

noun
  • Any competition with a very close outcome. 

  • The finish of a race in which the leaders are so close together that the winner cannot be identified using the naked eye but is determined by means of a photograph. 

win

noun
  • A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement. 

  • An individual victory. 

  • Pleasure; joy; delight. 

verb
  • To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over). 

  • To defeat or surpass someone or something. 

  • To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). 

  • To achieve victory. 

  • To have power, coercion or control. 

  • To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). 

  • To obtain (something desired). 

  • To cause a victory for someone. 

  • To extract (ore, coal, etc.). 

  • To dry by exposure to the wind. 

  • To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest. 

How often have the words photo finish and win occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )