entrants

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Races for the office tend to be sleepy affairs, but this year’s contest has featured last-minute entrants, a whopping influx of cash and defections among the incumbent’s key supporters.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Some of today's pensioners still receive money from the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme, a very generous programme that accepted new entrants from 1978 until 2002.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Heightened economic and policy uncertainty has kept many employers from making big hiring pushes, plus there’s a continuing skills mismatch between retiring workers and younger entrants.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

According to a 2025 Oxford Economics report, 85% of the rise in the unemployment rate since mid-2023 “is concentrated in new market entrants who can’t find work.”

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

Almost all of the fourteen entrants wanted an opportunity to go to the Interzonal, and it was rumored that some had entered to take a crack at Bobby Fischer.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady