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running for office

noun as in candidacy

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EMILYs List saw sign-ups for candidate trainings increase 22-fold as tens of thousands of women considered running for office.

From Slate

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and his allies turned their nose up at the chance to bar Trump from ever running for office again after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

From Salon

By then, Latinos — who were the primary target of Proposition 187 and its noxious ads — were running for office as Democrats in record numbers.

“What I have found since ever running for office is the best thing you can do is just talk to somebody and treat them like an American, that they deserve the time to talk to you,” he told NBC News on Monday.

From Salon

Hunt, like so many of the other Gen Z candidates this year, is best described as extremely driven: Before running for office, she worked at the United Nations in the office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and was a law clerk in Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s office, where she said she got to work on Trump’s first impeachment trial.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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