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
The other was the vigorous argument between abstraction and figuration as front runner of the avant-garde, then being hard-fought in the American art world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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
The seven-episode drama was considered a front-runner in the category, earning 13 nominations as well as critical acclaim and impressive ratings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
After a brief turn as a front-runner in the model-development race with the release of Gemini 3.0 last November, Google has encountered a series of setbacks this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
The front-runner was Francesca Hong, a State Assemblywoman and DSA member who, according to the scant few surveys conducted, held a dominant lead over the moderate candidates in the field.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
She hadn’t been a front-runner the whole time.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
