How to Use front-runner in a Sentence
front-runner
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Meryl Davis Meryl Davis was the front-runner on the show's 18th season from the get-go.
—Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
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This set is bound to be a front-runner at the gift exchange.
—Kelsey Fredricks, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
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Rule 5 Draft pick Matt Sauer is a front-runner for the final spot.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
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The Bear has been an awards season front-runner this year.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
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The list is made up of 25 players who are front-runners for the Wooden Award.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
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If the front-runner is to be taken down, someone will have to do it.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
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By the end of the festival, the movie wins the Palme and Madison is a front-runner for Best Actress.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
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However, the front-runner in the bidding to build the system is.
—WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
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Brody has won best actor at most awards shows and is seen as the front-runner to take the Oscar on March 2.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2025
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Justyn Martin are the front-runners to start next season.
—C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2025
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All along, the Dodgers were seen as front-runners, if not outright favorites, to land Ohtani.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
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And, following the Giants’ upset of the Colts, there’s a new front-runner for the No. 1 pick in next spring’s draft.
—Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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For much of the year, Rubio and Gonzalez were viewed as front-runners.
—Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Isaiah Wynn is expected to be the front-runner to start at left guard.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
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As the most experienced player in the room, Daniels seemed like a front-runner to start.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
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A lot of other Democrats did as well, making her clearly the front-runner.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
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That gives us very little clarity as to who the Best New Artist front-runner is.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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The team is a front-runner for this year’s gold medal, of which Biles already has four from previous Olympics.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 30 July 2024
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And yet, the front-runner in the Republican Party says that.
—ABC News, 9 July 2023
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From the day that Steve Clifford stepped down and ended his second run as the Hornets’ head, Lee has been thought to be the front-runner.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 May 2024
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No decision’s been made, but a front-runner has emerged: Jack.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
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Andrews, a sophomore, appears to be the early front-runner to start at point guard but could be pushed by Vide.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
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The project was launched and is being built while Trump is the front-runner for a second presidency.
—Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 5 June 2024
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Yeah, well, there's a difference between is and odd (ph) and what is right now is Donald Trump is the front-runner.
—ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
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With the fall film festivals over, is there an Oscar front-runner?
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
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Thanks in large part to genetic studies in the 1980s, one theory emerged as the clear front-runner.
—Michael F. Hammer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
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Democrats still have a long search for their next party leader as front-runners begin to emerge over the next couple of years.
—Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 4 Apr. 2025
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Texas is handedly the front-runner for book challenges, the ALA found, with 1,120 titles challenged so far this year, the most of any state.
—Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
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And at this point, like Donna said, Donald Trump is the prohibitive front-runner in the polling.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
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Blackstone would join an existing group of non-Chinese shareholders that is considered to be front-runners in the bid for the app, according to Reuters.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
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