candidature

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“A public candidature and campaigning like the one that we have seen this year is highly unusual,” said Nina Graeger, the director of Peace Research Institute Oslo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

“The candidature will have its role to play in terms of jobs and growth in the Queensland economy once we have seen our way through the current crisis,” he said in a statement.

From Reuters • May 22, 2020

In 2016, he famously scuppered the leadership hopes of his friend Boris Johnson, by announcing his own candidature on the morning of Johnson's own campaign launch.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2020

I will post more from Lewis’s interview, which expands on an article he wrote for the Guardian earlier this month confirming his candidature, shortly.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2019

Incept′, to commence, esp. the period of candidature for the degree of master of arts, or a period of licensed teaching.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various