Noun a debate between the two aspirants for the highest office
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The Republican governor faces reelection this year and has also positioned herself as an aspirant to the White House in 2024.CBS News, 23 Aug. 2022 She's widely considered to be a White House aspirant in 2024. Stephen Groves, ajc, 27 June 2022 Contrast the current Republican gubernatorial aspirant with Reagan and two later GOP governors, Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger. George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022 Then the aspirant must get recommendations from three family members, at least one of whom must be a board member. Matt Durot, Forbes, 4 June 2022 The outcome of the contest between the two -- France's youngest leader since Napoleon and the three-time aspirant to become the nation's first female President -- was never a lock for either candidate. David A. Andelman, CNN, 24 Apr. 2022 Tiny Moldova, a Ukrainian neighbor and EU aspirant, has taken in 428,577. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022 Then Johnson wowed activists at the state convention, which helped lead him to the nomination for a U.S. Senate seat—a rare rise for a first-time Senate aspirant. Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022 Another future mayoral aspirant: Congressman Harold Washington. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
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In an opinion published Friday, the E.U. executive arm said Ukraine and fellow aspirant Moldova should be granted candidate status with conditions to improve its judiciary and other elements, said commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Quentin Ariès, Washington Post, 17 June 2022 For months, critics—most prominent among them, the Harvard professor and sometime aspirant for Powell’s job, Larry Summers—have been slamming the Fed for not responding quickly enough to rising prices. John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022 How can anyone have known that Berlusconi was not just a media magnate looking for acclaim, but an aspirant politician using soccer as a vehicle?New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022 That’s a vast improvement that will delight aspirant new MacBook Pro owners. Mark Vena, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021 But at Greys Court a maze walker—or aspirant, to use the technical term—encounters a junction within seconds and has to make a choice. Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021 McCoy, 37, clearly relishes these muddy agronomic investigations after years spent studying viticulture in the abstract as an aspirant sommelier. Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2021 Georgia became the latest playoff aspirant to have its morning spoiled by Hartline and and the rest of the OSU recruiting apparatus. Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 July 2021 Flipping over to the investment side of the coin, a second workshop - hosted by McLintock and Sibony - will provide expert advice to aspirant investors on how to assess pitches. Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 23 June 2021 See More