candidate
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Barack Obama filmed a basketball video with Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Astronomers want another observation showing the candidate companion where its orbit predicts it should next appear.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
But other voters simply recoiled at having to select a candidate they viewed as entirely unqualified.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has said he expects Infantino to resign or to face a challenge to his role from another candidate at elections in March.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Former World Champion Boris Spassky once said that he dreamt about chess, and David Bronstein, a World Championship candidate, talked about playing whole games in his sleep—ones he could reproduce the next morning.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Now, even as Blitzy is growing quickly, either Elliott or Pardeshi still interviews candidates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Ben & Jerry’s is poised to name three new independent directors to anchor the restructuring of its board, following a long search for suitable candidates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The group has a good bench strength of internal candidates who could throw their hats in the ring.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
In Arcadia, City Council candidates must be at least 18 years old, a California resident, a registered city voter and a resident of the district they seek to represent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Three candidates crowded the field looking to unseat Big Bill.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Meantime that modern church is still very modern indeed, and at this present time its pulpit is vacant—they are candidating!
From Divers Women by Pansy
What said the elegant modern church, that during the process of this change was undergoing a candidating siege?
From Divers Women by Pansy
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
He once told me of an early experience in candidating.
From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock
When we think of it, what a ghoulish business "candidating" is!
From The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
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