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Example sentences for: contender

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The magazine profiles California congressman and former House Manager James Rogan, a possible contender for Sen.
Nowadays, of course, the overbriefed newcomers are orientated , a longer verb that sounds suspiciously like a back-formation from orientation . Similarly, derivate looks like an up-and-coming contender for derive . Proceeding analogously, a classmate of mine in junior high school once talked of improvisating, but somehow her neologism never caught on.
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At this writing [June 1990], there is a contender for the national leadership in West Germany with the name La Fontaine , while the prime minister of East Germany is De Maiziere.
The national Republican Party reportedly pressured Pataki to do it so there'd be a strong Republican campaign against the probable Democratic contender, Hillary Rodham Clinton.