- plural of contender.
contenders
Example Sentences
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Three of the teams who remain unbeaten are regular play-off contenders.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
There was no shortage of heavy-hitting contenders: Tour de France runner-up Remco Evenepoel; Evenepoel’s fellow Belgian Wout van Aert; occasional Pogacar nemesis Mathieu van der Poel; French prodigy Paul Seixas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“In my view, those are the two leading contenders to get to commercial advantage first,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Montreal boasts the largest market of any of the projected expansion contenders, with a rich history of baseball even beyond the Expos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
From a scramble of contenders I got one of the jugs, elbowed off a counterattack, opened it, sampled it, choked, and then went through with my original plan by stopping Brinker’s mouth with it.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
