candidate
Example Sentences
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Among those visitors was Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
As the job market cools, they are both raising the bar for entry-level jobs and seeking more consistent criteria to winnow the candidate pool.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
That is the question at the centre of a debate sparked by the ballot box success of a Green candidate.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Cloobeck said he had launched his run because he could not find a single qualified candidate — until he endorsed Swalwell.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
I’d experienced this enough times to have learned by now that I was never a real candidate for friendship—and certainly nothing more than that.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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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