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candidate

[kan-di-dayt, -dit, kan-di-dayt] / ˈkæn dɪˌdeɪt, -dɪt, ˈkæn dɪˌdeɪt /


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Those characteristics make it a strong candidate for a more broadly used cleanup mechanism.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026

Lula, the 80-year-old candidate for the left-wing Workers' Party, has been president three times already.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Conversely, a child who handles money well and wants the flexibility to invest, start a business or buy a home is the better candidate for a lump sum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Gustavo Arellano and his father Lorenzo Arellano, from right, chat with gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton at King Taco in East Los Angeles on Thursday, October 1, 2026.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

He particularly didn't like it when the candidate was only interested in his own personal advancement or just wanted to get out of Germany.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Its most recent survey suggested that, on the eve of the election, both candidates had the same rejection rate with voters: 45%.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Pew found 29 percent of voters spontaneously named an economic concern when asked what they most wanted congressional candidates to discuss -- more than three times any other category.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

DURANT, Okla. — David Coleman doesn’t know much about the Republican candidates who are running in November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

However, the researchers emphasize that these genes are candidates identified through the analysis, and further research will be needed to establish exactly what roles they play.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Olmsted next considered four specific candidates: a site on the lakeshore above the Loop; two inland sites, one of which was Garfield Park on the western perimeter of the city; and of course Jackson Park.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

When we think of it, what a ghoulish business "candidating" is!

From The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

He once told me of an early experience in candidating.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

What said the elegant modern church, that during the process of this change was undergoing a candidating siege?

From Divers Women by Pansy

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




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