be a participant

"I said 'we must have a World Championship for women and we have to be a participant in the Olympic Games'," she explained.

“Policy is important, but we didn’t get there with Build Back Better because we don’t ask this fundamental question: ‘What does it mean to be a participant in a family these days?’”

Told to move under a canopy of lanterns, I’m warned that any of those around me could be a participant, and I try to blend in, browsing for a place to eat.

Trump, however, said at the beginning of August that the ABC News debate had been “terminated,” because “Biden will no longer be a participant.”

And while I was supposed to just be a participant, I couldn’t come empty-handed.