entrants

noun

plural of entrant
as in entries
a person who enters something (such as a competition) Each entrant had to agree to the contest rules. There were thousands of new entrants into the competition.

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Recent Examples of entrants The $4 million will be invested over the next three years in supporting new entrants and re-skilling mid-career professionals. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026 The energy apprenticeship pipeline only had 45,000 entrants in 2024, but really needs 65,000 professionals flowing in yearly to close the labor supply gap. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 To date, astronomers have found more than 6,300 of these alien worlds orbiting other stars, with new entrants to our exoplanetary catalogs arriving practically every day. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026 At the Grand Slams, which have 128 entrants in the men’s and women’s singles fields, wild cards usually take up six percent of the entries. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 While rising college-going rates helped university entrants grow to 640,000 over that period, the government projects that number will fall to about 510,000 by 2040 as demographic decline accelerates. — Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 But Tencent is facing a slew of competition in the AI space, from established titans like Alibaba to newer entrants like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, the developer of the Kimi models. — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026 The sluggish job market has shut out new entrants and left people like Ruiz feeling stuck. — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026 The goal is to get more Derby horses to run in the Preakness after more than 85% of the entrants in the last five years, including three winners — Rich Strike (2022), Sovereignty (2025) and Golden Tempo (2026) — skipped the Maryland race. — Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrants
  1. entries
  2. competitors
  3. candidates
  4. contestants
  5. recruits
Noun
  • These routing announcements are declarations made as entries on a global routing table used by all ASes and the hosting providers serving them.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Rather than centering on vacationers attempting to unplug from reality, the narrative reportedly turns on two rival film crews arriving with competing festival entries.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of entries
Noun
  • The season brings back the franchise’s ‘Cutthroat’ format, splitting 24 competitors into three teams battling for a share of $500,000.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Look at how competitors communicate their value, answer customer questions, appear in search, structure digital journeys and guide prospects toward conversion.
    — James Fratzke, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of competitors
Noun
  • If Woltemade leaves then Wissa, Joe Willock, who is set to stay, and Jacob Ramsey are the obvious candidates to compete to play there.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • During a meeting last week, officials held drawings to determine the order that candidates' names will appear on the ballot.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of candidates
Noun
  • Failure to comply with the rules would result in disqualification for contestants.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • There are two more groups of contestants in the next round, followed by a semifinals round, and then the finals.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of contestants
Noun
  • The two girls were falsely listed as recruits for the university’s crew team, even though neither ever participated in the sport.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Murry Taylor, who jumped for twenty-seven seasons, many of them with Dow, compared the recruits to wild horses.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of recruits

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“Entrants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrants. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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