prospective

Example Sentences

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Church members would pass them out surreptitiously for evangelism to prospective Iranian converts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

After meeting prospective surrogate Annie Peverelle at an earlier Surrogacy UK event, they got to know each other and Peverelle offered to carry the couple's baby for them.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

As one critic wrote, the Moleskines’ prospective buyers were being offered the fantasy of being able “to write in a blank space that Didion might once have intended to use herself.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Hype mounted ahead of Olaplex’s IPO in 2021, with the company attracting attention from a handful of prospective suitors.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

And so when Federalist leaders from New York approached him as a prospective candidate for the gubernatorial race, he indicated a willingness to switch party affiliations and run in his home state as a Federalist.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis