nominee
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“Club Kid” “The writers go their own way. The front-runners are two overdue veterans: six-time feature nominee McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine’ and seven-time nominee Mike Leigh’s likely swan song, ‘Tender Loving Care.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Daniel J. Sullivan voted for Democrats in the prior three presidential elections and for Democratic nominee Mary Peltola when she ran for the House.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
In New Hampshire’s Senate race, Republican nominee John Sununu has said it “doesn’t make any sense to engage in a trade war with Canada.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Seated in a brown leather armchair while holding a coffee mug, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee lays claim to his Muslim faith in straightforward, affecting terms.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Hundreds of enthusiastic congregants packed the pews at the overwhelmingly black church eager to hear what the first black Democratic nominee for president of the United States had to say.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Other nominees included the rapper Kojey Radical, Geordie jazz act Knats, and former Little Mix star Jade - who was the first ever X Factor winner to receive a Mercury nomination.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Vail recommended that shareholders reject the Oasis nominees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Branch members must then watch all 15 shortlisted films to be eligible to vote on a second preferential ballot that produces the final five nominees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The cast is chock full of former Oscar nominees and one-time A-listers.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
In the Upper House, owing to the large absenteeism of lay lords, the bench of bishops, nominees of the Crown and agents of the British interest, largely held sway.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith
Vocabulary lists containing nominee
Electoral Elocution: The Verbiage of Voting
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Academy Awards, List 1
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