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 For job seekers who spent the summer sending resumes into the void, there’s another piece of September lore worth paying attention to—the job market is supposed to pick back up. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026 Foliage-seekers can alight in the town of Winona, Minnesota, located on an island in the Mississippi—where visitors hike, kayak, or fish amid craggy river bluffs carpeted with ever-changing treetops. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026 The group alleged security forces opened fire on job seekers in Gachsaran and Ahvaz and reported separate demonstrations over unpaid wages, inflation, fuel shortages and working conditions. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Living costs are high and hiring is weak while roughly 1 in 4 unemployed job seekers spends six months or more looking for work. — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 For more than eighty years, this work has attracted generations of American adventure-seekers. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026 Pleasure-seekers would travel by train to open prairies and plains to watch decommissioned locomotives crash into each other. — Caitlín Doherty, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 Most states have allowed immigrants who have legal work authorization — including visa holders, asylum seekers and recipients of Temporary Protected Status — to drive commercial vehicles. — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026 The show lures corporate sponsors to the marketing mecca, where brands hope to convert experience seekers into true believers, eventually disciples. — Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
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  1. candidates
  2. applicants
  3. contenders
Noun
  • That subjectivity and secrecy over how a winner is selected also builds suspense, particularly in the years that follow an era dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, where a deeper pool of candidates now swims.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Room for Disagreement Some Democrats were worried less about their individual candidates or the DCCC’s ability to compete, and more about the Democratic National Committee’s ability to help candidates in tight raises.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of candidates
Noun
  • Virtual interviews may have helped mask body size from admissions committees, leading them to unknowingly accept more fat applicants.
    — Jessica Rosenblum, STAT, 8 Sep. 2026
  • For example, the Act prohibited government funds from being used for stock buybacks or dividends and favoured applicants committed to avoiding buybacks more generally.
    — Mariana Mazzucato, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of applicants
Noun
  • This year’s premiere should get a strong boost, as most of the country will get CBS coverage of a late afternoon match-up between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings, two contenders in the highly competitive NFC North.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Pizza has even sparked nationwide debates about which city has the best pie, with notable contenders being Chicago-style pizza and thin-crust New York pizza.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of contenders

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“Seekers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seekers. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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