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 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
On BBC Newsnight on Tuesday, he declared Ms Harris the new front runner, noting she had captured fresh "momentum".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
New polling has cemented populist leader Marine Le Pen’s front-runner status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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 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
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
Then, somewhat oddly, both the Democratic front-runner in the primary and the ensuing Republican nominee became embroiled in scandals involving their ex-wives.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
