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
With Kamala Harris out of the California governor’s race, other candidates are jockeying to be seen as the new front runner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
Turek could also benefit from the strong campaign being waged by gubernatorial front-runner Rob Sand, who tops the Democratic ticket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
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 front-runner was Francesca Hong, a State Assemblywoman and DSA member who, according to the scant few surveys conducted, held a dominant lead over the moderate candidates in the field.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
She hadn’t been a front-runner the whole time.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
