front runner
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"We've wound down our kitchen, it was natural for us to cut that and focus on what is front runner for the business, which is drinks sales."
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
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 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
Ex-home secretary Suella Braverman, who was initially seen by many as a front runner in the race, did not enter the race after many of her key allies joined Mr Jenrick's campaign.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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
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
She was considered the front-runner to win another term until she gave an interview to the Washington Post in which she badmouthed Gov. George Wallace, the man who’d appointed her, and his wife.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
A public survey released in late May showed Duterte as the front-runner in the 2028 race, with 51 percent of respondents saying they planned to vote for her.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 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
