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candidate

[kan-di-dayt, -dit, kan-di-dayt] / ˈkæn dɪˌdeɪt, -dɪt, ˈkæn dɪˌdeɪt /


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George Epstein, of the Conway Daily Sun, tried to ask one candidate, before immediately course-correcting: “Excuse me—Chris Sununu is definitely the wrong name to use.”

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

With more than three-quarters of the votes counted early Wednesday afternoon in Israel, Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party had around 27 seats and the party of the leading opposition candidate, Gadi Eisenkot, had around 22.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

That year — when Meighan-Thiel’s older sister campaigned for the measure — it got 8,293 votes of support — more than any single candidate for City Council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The candidate has said the gesture was a joke performed with a water bottle.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Word was there was a fifth candidate who had failed the final test last night.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Both candidates in the L.A. mayoral race, incumbent Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman, have called for the city to permanently end its relationship with Flock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The two most likely candidates for this are Naftali Bennett - joint-leader of the Beyachad political alliance - and Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

There are only two candidates for COP18 and the winner could be announced this week in Yerevan, where nearly 200 nations are trying to salvage a stalling deal to protect nature.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

El-Sayed has learned a lot from more centrist candidates in the party.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

As before, the candidates for Scythedom went first, having been tested the night before.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

He once told me of an early experience in candidating.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

"The minister who is candidating can't be too careful what text he chooses," said Miss Cornelia solemnly.

From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

What said the elegant modern church, that during the process of this change was undergoing a candidating siege?

From Divers Women by Pansy

After a little rest and some candidating for a church, I took a small parish at Highland Falls, about a mile from West Point, New York, entering on my labors in January, 1866.

From Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe

The elder was filling the vacant pulpit that day by mere chance, as he told me; but I guess he was really candidating a little after all.

From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick


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