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Example sentences for: contender

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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.
Building-space on the water being what it is, Venice has only one real piazza (all others are called “campi”), but in comparison, any other contender would have died of shame anyway.
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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Dole is once again a vice presidential contender, and Bauer is the candidate-designate of the Christian right.