nominee
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A politician needs to win their party’s nomination before they can win the November election as that party’s nominee.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mr. Rogers, 63, is the Republican nominee for U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In 1991, NPR’s Nina Totenberg broke the story of Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, drawing the ire of the right.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Double nominee here, “Widow’s Bay” and “The Beast in Me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
By the end of the roll call, James Abram Garfield had won enough votes to become the Republican Party's nominee, beating out Grant, Blaine, and Sherman.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
After that, she became one of the youngest Grammy nominees ever in the best spoken word album for children category thanks to her voice work on “A Bug’s Life Read-Along.”
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
The nominees were chosen in a public vote from an initial longlist that also included stars like David Tennant, Gary Oldman, Idris Elba, James Norton and Tom Hiddleston.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
We spoke to the creatives behind six of the nominees to find out how they did it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Diana later withdrew all but two of its board nominees, and Genco shareholders voted against those candidates at a shareholder meeting in June, Genco has said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But curiously enough the presidential nominees or preferences are not even mentioned.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
Vocabulary lists containing nominee
Electoral Elocution: The Verbiage of Voting
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Academy Awards, List 1
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This Week In Words: Current Events Vocab for January 16–22, 2021
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