candidate
Example Sentences
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That means the opposition parties would need to agree on an alternative candidate to defeat Swinney, a highly unlikely prospect.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
"This study allows us to see how people lived through change," says Eleftheria Orfanou, PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
“Steyer is outspending his opponents by far more than any other self-funded candidate in California,” said Dan Schnur, a longtime politics professor at USC, UC Berkeley and Pepperdine University.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
But the candidate was not the main speaker.
From Slate • May 19, 2026
I’d never feel as passionately about another candidate as I did about my own husband, which made campaigning for others sometimes difficult for me.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing candidate
Election Lingo
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Electoral Elocution: The Verbiage of Voting
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Commonly Misspelled Words, List 2
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