candidate
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Neither candidate is expected to finish on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
So instead, Raman is positioning herself as the anti-establishment candidate and seeking to capitalize on the strong negative opinions of Bass many Pratt voters hold, Raman campaign insiders say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for Senate from Michigan, was always going to be controversial.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
He was voted to be the party's candidate by members of the Camden Green Party ahead of local councillor Hamza Chowdhury.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“The candidate seems to know nothing about technical terminology, naming all animals in colloquial German, and avoiding systematic nomenclature,” one of the examiners wrote.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
"Many of the proposed inorganic candidates would need to be present at very high concentrations to match the required absorption."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The list of candidates to play in Bangladesh is long because there is no outstanding one among them.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
“I’ve interviewed a lot of political candidates — from Hilary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Kimmel noted that for more than 20 years, he and other late-night hosts interviewed political candidates, including Trump, without any fuss.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
“We have to make sure the candidates complete all our tests.”
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
He once told me of an early experience in candidating.
From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock
The elder was filling the vacant pulpit that day by mere chance, as he told me; but I guess he was really candidating a little after all.
From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
"The minister who is candidating can't be too careful what text he chooses," said Miss Cornelia solemnly.
From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
I believe the whole church is satisfied with the result of our peculiar method of candidating.
From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Lyman Abbott
After a little rest and some candidating for a church, I took a small parish at Highland Falls, about a mile from West Point, New York, entering on my labors in January, 1866.
From Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe
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