Thesaurus results for NOMINEE

nominee

noun

as in candidate

one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty as the club's vice presidential nominee, she was expected to support the president's position

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Recent Examples of nominee Adam Hamilton Hamilton, the Democratic nominee, has characterized the war as a major foreign policy blunder. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026 The final anthology has 34, including Schreck, Tony nominee and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, Tony and Pulitzer nominee Sarah Ruhl, and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow Migdalia Cruz, among others. — Carey Purcell, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2026 The Texas Senate race is the most expensive race in the country right now, and Republicans are pouring $200 million to save the nominee there. — Jacob Brogan, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026 Will Gavin Newsom be the 2028 Democratic presidential nominee? — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 17 Oct. 2026 On Friday, the GOP nominee for attorney general wasn't just in the crowd. — AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Now that Talarico is in a tight race with Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the clip resurfaced and has been put in the spotlight. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2026 Democratic Senate nominees put up gaudy third-quarter totals. — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 Morrison, a 2022 Tony nominee for A Strange Loop, is joined on stage by Wesley Taylor, Pooya Mohseni, Michael Lepore and, in the title role, Alaska Thunderf*ck. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

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After all, states like Georgia and Arizona were also once solidly red until break-out candidates—backed by party spending—upended those assumptions.

— Philip Elliott, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
But most of the likely Democratic candidates simply don’t agree that a genocide happened in Gaza, and reject the question’s premise.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026

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