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
  • This set is bound to be a front-runner at the gift exchange.
    — Kelsey Fredricks, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Rule 5 Draft pick Matt Sauer is a front-runner for the final spot.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The Bear has been an awards season front-runner this year.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The list is made up of 25 players who are front-runners for the Wooden Award.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
  • If the front-runner is to be taken down, someone will have to do it.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • 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
  • However, the front-runner in the bidding to build the system is.
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Justyn Martin are the front-runners to start next season.
    — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2025
  • All along, the Dodgers were seen as front-runners, if not outright favorites, to land Ohtani.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • For much of the year, Rubio and Gonzalez were viewed as front-runners.
    — Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Isaiah Wynn is expected to be the front-runner to start at left guard.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
  • A lot of other Democrats did as well, making her clearly the front-runner.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • That gives us very little clarity as to who the Best New Artist front-runner is.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • And yet, the front-runner in the Republican Party says that.
    — ABC News, 9 July 2023
  • 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
  • No decision’s been made, but a front-runner has emerged: Jack.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • 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
  • The project was launched and is being built while Trump is the front-runner for a second presidency.
    — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 5 June 2024
  • 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
  • With the fall film festivals over, is there an Oscar front-runner?
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • And at this point, like Donna said, Donald Trump is the prohibitive front-runner in the polling.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Week 4 will go down as the episode that solidified the three front-runners, and then upended it all.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 July 2024
  • Rookie of the year front-runner Corbin Carroll homered off Alexis Diaz in the ninth for his first hit of the series.
    — Gordon Wittenmyer, The Enquirer, 22 July 2023
  • Mark, 57, would be a front-runner without the support of the Bachelor Nation Deep State.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Fundraising was one of the few issues that differentiated the front-runners.
    — Steve Peoples, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2025

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