entrants

noun

plural of entrant
as in entries
a person who enters something (such as a competition) Each entrant had to agree to the contest rules. There were thousands of new entrants into the competition.

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Recent Examples of entrants Competitive grants should support strong alternatives, including partnerships with effective schools and programs serving midcareer entrants. — Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026 And secondly, since investors are now recognizing the worsening launch crisis that Ars has been writing about for months, there is apparently capital to be raised for new entrants into the medium-lift launch market. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026 The out-of-state architects tended to fare better than the local entrants. — Elijah Winkler, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026 The company will give entrants free access to a digital toolkit that contains creative assets, including images of Svedka Vodka Water – which means no one will be required to buy can of the beverage to create a submission. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026 By entering this Promotion, entrants accept and agree to be bound by these Official Rules. — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026 Other cities in the region have had less success attracting first time entrants this year. — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026 First Proof’s rules require any entrants to be openly available, so OpenAI’s blockbuster new model was excluded. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026 None of the entrants even finished that race, but, a year later, five vehicles completed a follow-up. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrants
  1. entries
  2. competitors
  3. candidates
  4. contestants
  5. recruits
Noun
  • There’s plenty of room to build Pick’em entries well beyond the ESPN doubleheader.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The narrative moves between teenage football players, police officers, and clueless parents, with diary entries, footnotes, photographs, and archival materials at play; you might be reminded of Rejection or Lost Lambs, but with odder grammar.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of entries
Noun
  • Among her likely competitors, Audrey Hobert and Malcolm Todd will be fun to watch as the Grammys’ first set of siblings nominated against each other for this prize.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Doncasters' exposure to the industrial gas turbine market as a percentage of revenue is greater in comparison to its larger competitors, Rothschild & Co noted in July.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of competitors
Noun
  • There’s been a lot of talk about candidates being authentic, being relatable.
    — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Other smaller-name candidates also saw their petitions challenged.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of candidates
Noun
  • Cut Week will mark the biggest elimination in The Voice history, when each coach will send two singers straight through to Live Shows as five more contestants battle for one remaining spot on each team.
    — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Uninterested Woman Game Show A classic game show premise, where our contestants are three scuzzy-looking men (Inde Navarrette, Jane Wickline, and Sarah Sherman) who really cannot just leave a married lesbian named Kelly (Saidah Belo-Osagie) alone.
    — Rima Parikh, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of contestants
Noun
  • By July, morale among immigration officers had dipped below its nadir during the Biden Administration, with agents now complaining of being overextended, inundated with novice recruits, and undermined by inflammatory rhetoric from on high.
    — Francisco Cantú, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Hazing involves requiring new or potential recruits to the military or college fraternities to perform strenuous, humiliating or dangerous tasks.
    — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of recruits

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“Entrants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrants. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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