candidate
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Lead author and Monash PhD candidate Sam Foster from the School of Physics and Astronomy said the results create opportunities to investigate entirely new quantum states.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Under that premise, the role should go to a candidate from Latin America this time.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Brook has not shown he has the maturity to do that part of the job, meaning Joe Root was the only candidate.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The candidate is a combination of an mRNA therapeutic vaccine and Merck’s cancer drug Keytruda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
An unlikely candidate would turn the quantum hypothesis from a peculiarity to an accepted fact.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The committee said candidates can’t “fix the toxic brand of an entire segment of the economy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan was the front-runner after last month's first informal vote, in which the council's 15 members, including the five with veto power, pass judgment in secret on the candidates.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
This means that it has been able to submit its slate of presidential and parliamentary candidates to the electoral commission leaving the rival faction without any representatives on the ballot.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The two candidates spent much of the night skewering each other over their respective track records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Jackie Cochran would not be one of the test candidates.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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
It was when I was candidating for my first parish that I preached at a little village down in Pennsylvania.
From Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 by Various
"The minister who is candidating can't be too careful what text he chooses," said Miss Cornelia solemnly.
From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
When we think of it, what a ghoulish business "candidating" is!
From The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
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