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front-runner

NOUN
  1. a competitor thought likely to win

How To Use front-runner In A Sentence

  • The publishing magnate is challenging front-runner Dole by attracting largely middle-class suburban voters seemingly alienated from the political process.
  • Another focus of feminist debate has been Hilary Clinton, wife of the Democratic front-runner.
  • Neither of the front-runners in the presidential election is a mainstream politician.
  • The two front-runners have been tarnished already by bad publicity. Times, Sunday Times
  • The underdog is always challenging the front-runner to a debate. Brown urges Coakley to participate in more debates
  • Neither of the front-runners in the presidential election is a mainstream politician.
  • Rick Perry's surge in the polls has shaken up the Republican presidential race, knocking Mitt Romney from his perch as the GOP front-runner and emboldening Republican voters who say 2012 is the year a rock-ribbed conservative can win the White House. Perry Surge Upends the Race
  • Like several other candidates, Alexander also attacked Dole, the clear front-runner in the race, as the ultimate insider.
  • Continental Railways, was the front-runner in a four-way contest for the contract.
  • But if he wins a big victory here, then he will look like a certifiable front-runner, having won back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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