candidate
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Indiana county council candidate Jaime West has the nomination locked up.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate from Texas, denied rumors that he had been secretly hospitalized in an Ohio psychiatric facility, calling it "the craziest thing I've ever heard."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Developer Paul Schon said that neither candidate has figured out how to make L.A. affordable, but he’s leaning toward Bass because he thinks she’s more pro-development.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
A lawyer for the firm described the document as a “confidential work product” with information that had been “obtained through confidential references during Korn Ferry’s candidate search.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
In 1605, Bellarmine would almost certainly have been elected Pope, but declined to offer himself as a candidate, preferring to be the power behind the throne.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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All seven candidates to lead the United Nations received a vote of "discourage," effectively a veto, from a permanent UN Security Council member in the latest informal poll, a diplomat said Friday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Many include AI depictions of opposing candidates, and even more lack disclaimers about the use of the tech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Some macrophages can enter tumors and attack cancer cells, making them attractive candidates for cancer immunotherapy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The two candidates have been somewhat aligned in trying to tweak the tax.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The lights showed how candidates for an office start up a campaign, how they raise money, how they get nominated, and how elections are done.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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He once told me of an early experience in candidating.
From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock
The elder was filling the vacant pulpit that day by mere chance, as he told me; but I guess he was really candidating a little after all.
From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
I believe the whole church is satisfied with the result of our peculiar method of candidating.
From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Lyman Abbott
After a little rest and some candidating for a church, I took a small parish at Highland Falls, about a mile from West Point, New York, entering on my labors in January, 1866.
From Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe
I don't believe in candidating, and I can't be accessory to it.
From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Lyman Abbott
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