front runner
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Paramount had initially been viewed as a front runner in the deal given the close ties its CEO, David Ellison, and his father, Oracle Corp.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
The current front runner, though, is 72-year-old Salvador Nasralla, who is running for president for the fourth time.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 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
The first two leadership ballots of Conservative MPs made him the front runner in the race to succeed Rishi Sunak.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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
Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan was the front-runner after last month's first informal vote, in which the council's 15 members, including the five with veto power, pass judgment in secret on the candidates.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Health and Human Services secretary, is the front-runner in the race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Italy is a front-runner to be that third-party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
She has established herself as the front-runner of a crowded primary, and that takes real acumen and skill.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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
