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Recent Examples of qualifier
The event includes a pre-qualifier, workshops and a final competition, positioning Kansas City as one of a select group of cities hosting regional qualifiers at the Kauffman Center for the Arts.
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Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
Thompson is the top qualifier in the 2A Olympic 183 weight class.
—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
Third-place finishers may advance via an automatic qualifier.
—Charles Baggarly
may 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2026
Pregnancy is a qualifier for enrolling in Medicaid if income requirements are met.
—Casey Pinto, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
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Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
Thompson is the top qualifier in the 2A Olympic 183 weight class.
—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
Third-place finishers may advance via an automatic qualifier.
—Charles Baggarly
may 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2026
Pregnancy is a qualifier for enrolling in Medicaid if income requirements are met.
—Casey Pinto, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for qualifier
Noun
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This dynamic creates a survival-of-the-fittest scenario where smaller companies — who can’t afford to sit on piles of unsold metals — might be forced into the arms of larger competitors.—
Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
4 May 2026
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Travis Madeira, a fourth-generation lobsterman who founded the lobster-shipping business LobsterBoys with his brother, makes about 80% of his sales to Americans, unlike some competitors who primarily export.—
Matt Sedensky,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
Noun
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There were signs of rodent entry in some structures on the couple’s property.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2026
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Competition for Palantir Technologies is heating up as artificial intelligence agents erode barriers to entry in its software space, according to HSBC, and that could hurt the stock.—
Davis Giangiulio,
CNBC,
4 May 2026
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To enter, follow the instructions in the email and complete the entry form in full, including the entrant’s name and email address.—
AJC.com,
AJC.com,
7 May 2026
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And in the last week, four additional New York City influencers have joined the entrants, buying Birkins of their own, with one girl purchasing not one but two in Japan.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
7 May 2026
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Beast Games, a spectacle of over-the-top competition, offers 1,000 contestants the chance to win a $5 million prize with other high-value prizes being doled out in the process.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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The contestant — last name not revealed — just won the largest prize in a single pricing game in the 54-year history of the CBS daytime game show.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
8 May 2026
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Two other candidates, tech entrepreneur Adam Miller and community organizer Rae Huang, criticized NBC4’s decision to exclude them from the debate.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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Several of the candidates have been arrested for the posts.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Flagg and Knueppel traded places as betting favorites during the season, but Flagg’s 96-point outburst over two games on the second-to-last weekend might have tipped the scales.—
Schuyler Dixon,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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Lines to see the fan favorites — Griner, second-year guard Saniya Rivers, former UConn star Aaliyah Edwards — wrapped around the length of the court for nearly an hour.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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To qualify for the program, applicants must have an industrial site of at least 30 contiguous acres of land that is listed on the Arkansas Site Selection Database and that is owned or optioned by the applicant.—
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Cato report found that in all, total green card approvals under USCIS, the agency in charge of processing immigration benefits, had been cut in half for applicants from all countries.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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While some contenders tasted nearly candied, the sugar here was just enough to balance the other flavors at play.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
7 May 2026
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Green also mixed it up with Barkley, a longtime subject of Warriors fans’ ire because of his status as a holdout against the early Curry-Green-Klay Thompson Golden State teams’ viability as a true contender, citing their reliance on jumpshooting.—
Michael Nowels,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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“Qualifier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/qualifier. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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