CANDIDACY Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

candidacy

noun

Definition of candidacy

as in probation

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tenure

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Recent Examples of candidacy His personal Facebook contains one post addressing his candidacy. — Sophie Lindberg july 27, Kansas City Star, 27 July 2026 However, Pirlo’s candidacy came under scrutiny because of his role as a global ambassador for Russian bookmaker Fonbet, prompting objections from Italian Football Federation (FIGC) officials and from Italian lawmakers. — Reuters, NBC news, 27 July 2026 That may sound like simple superstition, but what could be better-suited to Widow’s Bay’s Emmy candidacy than that? — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 July 2026 Now that an accusation of rape has toppled Platner’s candidacy, the Democrats who selected him are desperately trying to pick up the pieces of a race that might be their party’s best shot to take back the Senate. — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for candidacy

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Noun

He was sentenced to two years of community control, a form of probation.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
In July 2004, she was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement, followed by two years of supervised probation; she was also fined $30,000.

— Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of probation

Noun

Some factors outside of districts’ control, such as the declining birth rate and competition with the private sector, could be contributing to this trend, according to local and state education leaders.

— Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2026
Villalobos’ career spans thirty years in the school district with a brief interlude in the private sector, working for education technology companies.

— Austin Horn July 30, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026

Definition of education

Noun

Mandarin is the language of formal schooling in China since middle school, and the result, as Li describes it, is a generation that speaks its ancestral dialect with growing unfamiliarity.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 July 2026
Fauci has described the principles that drive him—public service, integrity, clarity of thought and speech—as the yield of his Jesuit schooling.

— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Definition of schooling

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