contender
Example Sentences
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The 41-year-old ski star with a surgically repaired right knee and without a functioning ACL in her left will begin the race as a legitimate contender to win a medal.
Unless an unexpected candidate decides to take the plunge, and goodness knows what could happen these days, a change at the top doesn't seem likely to be prompted by the wannabe contenders.
From BBC
If the championship was decided on such things, the Scots would be contenders.
From BBC
But it wasn’t just that the pair became instant gold medal contenders 11 months before the Olympic Games.
From Los Angeles Times
Even without them, more than 28% of the athletes competing in the discipline are Russian-born, including a contender to win gold for Germany.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
