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Example sentences for: front-runner

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Everyone agrees that George W. Bush is the front-runner, that Steve Forbes is in second place, and that Dan Quayle, who finished back in the pack with Lamar Alexander, will soon join Alexander on the sidelines.
A group of African-American intellectuals is mounting a behind-the-scenes campaign to persuade Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush to speak out on what one sociologist has called "the unspoken domestic crisis of the next millennium": White criminals preying on white people.
Gore has suffered from being perceived as the spoiled, stagnant front-runner.
2 position in government, JQA was the presumptive front-runner in the 1824 presidential race, though it was Andrew Jackson who won a plurality (yet not the necessary majority) of electoral votes.
He dares the front-runner to debate him.