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
Some reviews are predicting that one of the film's stars Ralph Fiennes could well be the early front runner for best actor too.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
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
The AMD deal will help Anthropic to further meet the surge in demand for its AI tools that have turned it into the front-runner of the AI race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In his speech, the paper reports the Labour leadership "front-runner" will say he wants power "pushed out of Whitehall to regions and local communities".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The consensus view broadly has been that the Google parent’s search and cloud businesses have successfully monetized AI, making it a front-runner in the race for AI dominance.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
She hadn’t been a front-runner the whole time.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
