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Examples of aspirant in a Sentence
a bevy of ever-smiling aspirants for the Miss America title
Recent Examples of aspirant from the Web
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Yet these days the hopes of Serbia and five other aspirants—Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro—are as faded as the yellow stars on Cvijic’s flag.
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The color coding — identifying superiority and privilege — was quickly copied by aspirants.
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One of the aspirants, Diane Rwigara, on Tuesday met the head of the European Union delegation, Michael Ryan, who in a Twitter post asked electoral officials to clarify Rwigara’s situation.
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The National Front had approached the presidential elections in a confident mood, with polls showing Le Pen No. 2 in a crowded field of aspirants.
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Two of those permits are slated for Southeastern Pennsylvania, the state’s most populous and potentially most lucrative region, where 51 aspirants are vying to set up growing operations inside warehouses that will be sealed tighter than prisons.
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Looming over the race is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 63, a fiery left-wing populist and twice-unsuccessful presidential aspirant who is gearing up for a third run next year.
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With Kennedy, politics aside, everything was intimate, aspirant, literally seen from below.
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If Congress ever had the juice to pass a bill codifying the disclosure of some minimum of financial information by White House aspirants, this would the time.
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First Known Use of aspirant
1738
aspirant
Definition of aspirant
: seeking to attain a desired position or status the pilot was an aspirant astronaut
First Known Use of aspirant
1800
ASPIRANT Defined for English Language Learners
aspirant
playDefinition of aspirant for English Language Learners
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: a person who tries to become something : a person who aspires to do or to be something
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