front runner
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Paramount had initially been viewed as a front runner in the deal given the close ties Ellison and his father, Oracle Corp.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025
The current front runner, though, is 72-year-old Salvador Nasralla, who is running for president for the fourth time.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025
The country’s acting president, Mohammad Mokhber, previously a behind-the-scenes bureaucrat, could be the front runner because he has already been seen meeting with Khamenei.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024
At 37, the front runner for the role is a year younger than Mr Varadkar was when he took the same job in 2017.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2024
Twice champion of the USSR, he’d won the 1958 Portorož Interzonal, becoming a front runner to play the incumbent titleholder, Mikhail Botvinnik, for the World Championship in 1960.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
