as in candidate
one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award
have numerous applicants for the job
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Recent Examples of applicant
With the price hike, the nonresident student body could see a jump in enrollment of wealthier applicants.
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Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
Processing the application will require significant staff time, although the applicant pays fees to cover the costs.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
Selected from applicants across all 27 EU Member States, these artists were chosen for the originality of their work and their potential to build something new through transatlantic collaboration.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 May 2026
Plus, as this column noted way back, the successful applicant picked to take on Ian Fleming’s Commander Bond should be young enough to play him in three or four, or more pictures.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 16 May 2026
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Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
Processing the application will require significant staff time, although the applicant pays fees to cover the costs.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
Selected from applicants across all 27 EU Member States, these artists were chosen for the originality of their work and their potential to build something new through transatlantic collaboration.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 May 2026
Plus, as this column noted way back, the successful applicant picked to take on Ian Fleming’s Commander Bond should be young enough to play him in three or four, or more pictures.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 16 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for applicant
candidate
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Baker’s Stanford is a strong candidate, and his book follows in the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Wall Street chronicle Liar’s Poker, but with more pimples and less eye contact.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt took his campaign to South Los Angeles on Wednesday, in a neighborhood incumbent Mayor Karen Bass represented during her years in Congress.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2026
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“Applicant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/applicant. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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