candidate
Example Sentences
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In 2018, for example, it was announced that there was a new candidate for a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun, known as 2017 OF201.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
In Falta, a constituency the TMC had won with 56% of the vote in 2021, the party failed even to keep a candidate in the fray for a repoll.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
But old guard candidate Xavier Becerra came out on top.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
“To know that he was an endorsed Republican candidate from my district and one that I had voted for because of that endorsement was eye-opening,” she said.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
The hostility began in 1789, when Burr accepted the office of attorney general in New York from Governor George Clinton after campaigning for Hamilton’s candidate, who lost.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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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