seekers

noun

plural of seeker
as in candidates
one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award predicted a tough year for summer job seekers

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Recent Examples of seekers Police reinforcements were called late Saturday to the temporary accommodation center for asylum seekers in Sintiki, a few kilometers (miles) from the Bulgarian border, after migrants threw rocks at guards, according to police. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 The kitchen and bathroom were shared with other residents—mostly foreign families, other asylum seekers. — Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026 This means that in today’s slow-hiring labor market, simply submitting more applications may not be enough for job seekers. — Courtney Connley-Hampton, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 In those cases, a company may advertise an opening that job seekers never had a realistic chance of getting. — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 The correspondence reveals Iranian authorities influencing deportation lists, last-minute passenger changes and at least one mistaken removal, raising alarms about asylum seekers, due process and returns to a repressive regime. — Safiyah Riddle, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 These jewels of the sea await treasure seekers in Lincoln City, a seaside town of artisans on the Oregon Coast. — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026 The spa Wellness seekers will love the lakefront barrel sauna—a perfectly Instagrammable spot to sweat it out after a day on the slopes or the trails. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2026 Spanish officials have been screening the remaining migrants and have processed roughly 500 asylum seekers' cases, rejecting the vast majority of them, Reuters reported. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
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  1. candidates
  2. applicants
  3. contenders
Noun
  • Meanwhile, outside the five districts that Democrats hope to switch, there are safely Democratic districts where progressive candidates are jousting with mainstream rivals, a subset of the national party’s ideological conflict.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Two possible Democratic 2028 presidential candidates — ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rahm Emanuel, an ex-Chicago mayor who was President Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff — have campaigned with Powell.
    — Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of candidates
Noun
  • Continue reading … HOLSTER HOLDUP — California gun-rights battle delivers major win for applicants stuck waiting in LA.
    — , FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • According to the Panamanian embassy in Washington DC, applicants must be physically be in Panama when the visa is issued.
    — Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of applicants
Noun
  • For Buttigieg and other potential contenders, winning the support of this group that makes up a majority of South Carolina’s Democratic electorate is essential.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Supporters are circulating clips of Ossoff’s speeches, debating his prospects against other potential 2028 Democratic contenders and increasingly comparing his trajectory with Obama’s rapid rise from the Senate to the White House.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of contenders

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“Seekers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seekers. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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