aspirants

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Aspirants have to squeeze through the loosely shuttered gates of the only ground available in the city to train.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2022

Aspirants can bring only up to three companions when registering their candidacies to prevent past chaotic scenes of candidates showing up with movie stars, musical bands and rowdy mobs of followers.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021

Aspirants included the former child actor Gary Coleman, the online publisher Arianna Huffington and the Hustler magazine mogul Larry Flynt.

From New York Times • May 6, 2021

Aspirants like Philadelphia and Atlanta might’ve offered billions of dollars more than Virginia, but they couldn’t compete on proximity to power.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2018

“Aspirant Veturius," he says, “as Aquilla has forfeited, and you, of all Aspirants, have the most men left alive, we, the Augurs, name you victor in the Trial of Strength. Congratulations."

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir