Frontrunner
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Frontrunner is a noun meaning Alternative form of front runner.
Meaning
Alternative form of front runner.
Example Sentences
The Conservative leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, has rejected “handouts” as a way of helping people affected by the cost of living crisis.
“Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton,” the left-leaning ThinkProgress wrote.
But as the old papal election saying goes: “He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal”, because few of those who are frontrunners at the start make it through the successive rounds of voting.
In 2020, Edward Pentin, the senior Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Register, released a book on the topic, titled "The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates." In the book, Pentin listed 19 cardinals he considered to be papabile, or "popeable" frontrunners.
Word Forms
- frontrunners
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include avant-garde, trailblazer, vanguard, pioneer, forefront, forerunner.
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