front runner
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Paramount had initially been viewed as a front runner in the deal given the close ties Ellison and his father, Oracle Corp.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
With Kamala Harris out of the California governor’s race, other candidates are jockeying to be seen as the new front runner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
Both the front runner, Claudia Sheinbaum, and her main rival, Xóchitl Gálvez, are far ahead in the polls of the only male candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024
The country’s acting president, Mohammad Mokhber, a previously behind-the-scenes bureaucrat, could be a front runner because he has already been seen meeting with Khamenei.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
Twice champion of the USSR, he’d won the 1958 Portorož Interzonal, becoming a front runner to play the incumbent titleholder, Mikhail Botvinnik, for the World Championship in 1960.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Health and Human Services secretary, is the front-runner in the race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
A couple of polls late this week have made it clear that El-Sayed is the front-runner heading into election night.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is no longer the clear front-runner in the AI race, as Anthropic’s private-market valuation is now higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The 61-year-old did not elaborate on where the final race would be held if Qatar and Abu Dhabi have to be called off, but the strong front-runner is the Imola circuit in Italy.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
In the West it took another century of experiment and debate before this evenly spaced solution for twelve, not nineteen, notes emerged as the front-runner solution.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
