Crossword-Solution: CANDIDATE 9 letters, 62 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Candidate n. One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as
a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office,
privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a
candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

We have 62 clues for the answer “CANDIDATE”

Clue Answers
someone who is considered for something 1 answer
Bush or Gore of 2000 1 answer
DEGREE aspirant 1 answer
DEGREE seeker 1 answer
Gov. Dewey. 1 answer
Man on a ticket. 1 answer
ONE aspiring to an office 1 answer
ONE thought likely to gain any position 1 answer
One who says "Iran"? 1 answer
PERSON running for office 1 answer
Political hopeful 1 answer
RUNNER for office 1 answer
Those standing for a position 1 answer
future president 1 answer
someone nominated for election 1 answer
Seat seeker 2 answers
One running 2 answers
JOB applicant 2 answers
postulant 2 answers
Runner, of a sort 3 answers
examinee 3 answers
Certain runner 3 answers
Standard bearer 4 answers
nominee 4 answers
Stumper 9 answers
comer 11 answers
coming man 13 answers
PERSON applying 15 answers
PERSON submitting application 15 answers
entrant 15 answers
Micawber 18 answers
Dark Horse 19 answers
Campaigner 20 answers
Office seeker. 23 answers
hoper 27 answers
aspirant 29 answers
Opponent 30 answers
platonist 30 answers
Challenger 32 answers
appointee 32 answers
romanticist 33 answers
Competitor 33 answers
Suitor 34 answers
trier 35 answers
Activist 37 answers
Optimist 38 answers
Idealist 38 answers
applicant 39 answers
Claimant 41 answers
Contender 44 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CANDIDATE (5)

The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother’s tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Well enough, but a poor gawkhammer mortal,” the wife replied “Heh-heh-heh!” laughed the married man with a hideous effort of appreciation, for he was as irrepressibly good-humoured under ghastly snubs as a parliamentary candidate on the hustings.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Although he was not old enough to meet the constitutional requirements, Eldridge Cleaver was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
But, for once, the Judge is entirely too late for dinner! Too late, we fear, even to join the party at their wine! The guests are warm and merry; they have given up the Judge; and, concluding that the Free-Soilers have him, they will fix upon another candidate.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
The Democrats had again been unable to con- jure up a viable candidate after another string of scandals rocked the primaries and the very foundation of the party itself Their entire platform focused on increasing the Peace Dividend beyond the aggressively reduced $180 Billion Defense budget.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Quotes with CANDIDATE (3)

There is no such thing as fear until you allow it to enter your heart. If I told you what really happens to your soul when it is put to eternal sleep, you would not fear death; hence, you would never have fear — or fear Fear. But this is something I will share with you another day and time, in another story. We are taught to fear anything that can bring us closer to death — to keep us from taking huge leaps that involve risk. The only thing you should fear in this lifetime is…
Suzy Kassem Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You become a candidate for God’s love when you are rejected by people
Sunday Adelaja
Science faculties at renowned research institutions were given two identical CVs to assess. Half the scientists received a CV with a female name, and half with a male name. The 'female' applicant was consistently rated as less competent and less hireable, and the scientists were less likely to want to mentor her. The 'male' candidate was offered a significantly higher starting salary
Emer O'Toole Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently
Where this answer appears

Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1946–2022).