Candidate
Candidate noun - One who seeks an office, honor, position, or award.
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Selection and candidate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Selection" instead a noun "Candidate".
Selection
Selection noun - A person or thing that is chosen.
Usage example: our selection was the third entrant in the dog show
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Candidate and selection are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Candidate" instead a noun "Selection".
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This incident from the 2008 Republican National Convention, in which Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy (commentators one would normally expect to be sympathetic to Republicans) made dismissive comments about the party's prospects and selection of Sarah Palin as its Vice-Presidential candidate.
Source: Is This Thing Still On? -
And when the Machine is built and the selection hearings are choosing the candidate to be sent, where Arroway simply states her case as if testifying before a jury, Drumlin approaches it like a job interview and easily beats her.
Source: Film / Contact - Really he's Crisparkle's assistant (though his Victorian actor Philip Bax also has a walk-on role as the waiter during "No Good Can Come From Bad"), but the trope is still in full effect: Bazzard's appeal as a candidate for selection is that his role is so minor, he's easy to overlook.
Source: Theatre / Drood
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