as in candidate
one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award
a debate between the two aspirants for the highest office
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Recent Examples of aspirant
Some Democrats believe that by 2028, presidential aspirants will be running away from Biden's legacy rather than embracing it.
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Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
Passages from the document sound eerily like Pompeo’s and O’Brien’s speeches:
The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose its absolute authority over the rest of the world.
—Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2020
White seems to be waving a red flag for aspirants who might follow in his wake.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
If Succession’s Logan Roy was an old man at the peak of his powers, the younger and more diverse group of bankers on Industry are Roy aspirants.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
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Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
Passages from the document sound eerily like Pompeo’s and O’Brien’s speeches:
The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose its absolute authority over the rest of the world.
—Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2020
White seems to be waving a red flag for aspirants who might follow in his wake.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
If Succession’s Logan Roy was an old man at the peak of his powers, the younger and more diverse group of bankers on Industry are Roy aspirants.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Aspirant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aspirant. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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