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  1. candidatesnoun

    Plural noun of candidate.

    There were ten applicants for the position and they chose five candidates to interview.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2016  

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    Rank popularity for the word 'candidates' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2513

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of candidates in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of candidates in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of candidates in a Sentence

  1. Bernie Sanders:

    And how long did it take us to elect an African-American to be president of the United States? What we should be doing is as a people is judge our candidates based on their views, their abilities, not the color of their skin, not on their religion. That is what America is supposed to be about.

  2. Eric Adams:

    New York Police Department would run rings around( the other candidates). They are masters. If you're a good mayor, you're only here for eight years. I've been here for 30-something years in New York Police Department. Police departments will wait you out, and they know that whatever you hand down, they have to implement. But if you know the system, if you know the crevices, you know how to go and ensure you're getting what you want.

  3. Daniel Horowitz:

    We do have a net benefit of a presidential election, where you have prominent people at the top of the ticket discussing those issues and forcing some of those individual candidates downballot to go on the record.

  4. Governor Bullock:

    Today, I am suspending my campaign to become the Democratic Party's nominee for President, while there were many obstacles we could not have anticipated when entering this race, it has become clear that in this moment, I won't be able to break through to the top tier of this still-crowded field of candidates.

  5. Ted Cruz:

    On this campaign, he is saying things that are not true, and he's saying it repeatedly, and he knows they're not true. it is a curious thing. Two of the candidates in this race — Donald Trump and Marco Rubio — both have the very same pattern. Whenever anyone points out their record, they simply start screaming, 'liar, liar, liar,'.

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