nominee
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Paulina is intent on becoming the school’s nominee for the next Miss Ghana pageant, and, having handily snatched that crown, moving on to an international competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Leeds limped into the semi-final missing a number of key players including the league's top try-scorer Maika Sivo, captain Ash Handley, and Man of Steel nominee Lachie Miller.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
What Paxton must have known, though, is that once he became the nominee, he’d be golden.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
Seven months later, a plurality of Democratic primary voters in Michigan chose Dr. Abdul El-Sayed as the party’s nominee for Senate.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
With the election just weeks away, Senator Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for president, warned that America was losing the Cold War.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Speculation in Sweden's literary circles is already in full swing, fuelled by the fact that the list of nominees and the jury's deliberations are kept secret for 50 years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Elsewhere, Senate nominees have walked a careful line on tariffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
His warning came as this year's nominees for the Earthshot Prize, the global environmental award he launched six years ago, were unveiled.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Grant nominees undergo a rigorous national peer review process before being chosen.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
His insolent programme was known; he proposed on the morrow to thrust his preposterously unfit candidate for the mayoralty, together with a few other objectionable nominees for divers offices, down the throat of the convention.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
Vocabulary lists containing nominee
Electoral Elocution: The Verbiage of Voting
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Academy Awards, List 1
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This Week In Words: Current Events Vocab for January 16–22, 2021
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