candidacy
noun
Examples of candidacy in a Sentence
Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The event served the dual purpose of showing Daines the kind of support Lake has in Arizona, and to show Arizona voters that national Republicans are fully backing her candidacy.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2024
Eight years ago in Wisconsin’s GOP primary, Donald Trump suffered his last big defeat on his way to the nomination, undone by a huge geographic divide over his candidacy.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
His success at portraying those prosecutions as persecutions — and warning, without merit, that his followers could be targeted next — has fueled enthusiasm for his candidacy and placed him, once again, in a position to capture the White House.
—Michael C. Bender, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
Realizing the obvious limitations [to my candidacy] but also realizing that there's a larger purpose here than trying to compete in the horse race.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2024
According to guidelines from the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, applications for school board candidacy are to be filed with and reviewed by the secretary of the school board or another person designated by the board.
—Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2024
But then, several weeks later, Tammy Murphy, the wife of Governor Phil Murphy and the most powerful woman in the state, announced her own candidacy for Senate.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
Black men seemed similarly uncomfortable with Chisholm’s candidacy.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
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1693, in the meaning defined above
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