Candidate and Rival

Candidate

Candidate noun - One who seeks an office, honor, position, or award.

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Rival and candidate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rival" instead a noun "Candidate".

Nearby Words: candidacy, candidature, candida

Rival noun - One that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value.

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Candidate and rival are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Candidate" instead a noun "Rival".

Nearby Words: rivalry, rivaled, rivaling, rivalled

good	good candidate	good rival
female	female candidate	female rival
best	best candidate	best rival
original	original candidate	original rival
Other adjectives: popular, strong, real, male, big, great, serious, dark, potential, main, worthy, new, major, defeated, political, possible, former, final, primary, unknown, last, closest.

After it became clear that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump were the only remaining viable candidates, both of whom were hated by the Party Establishment, endorsements began to go to one candidate or the other purely in opposition to their rival.

Source: Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
While that is the biggest example of Epic Fail; if the other candidate is chosen and he chooses to order the execution of his rival.

Source: Epic Fail / Video Games
AND both Santos and Obama appointed a major rival Presidential candidate as his Secretary of State.

Source: Useful Notes / Barack Obama