Candidate and Successor

Candidate

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

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Successor and candidate are semantically related. in job topic. In some cases you can use "Successor" instead a noun "Candidate".

Nearby Words: candidacy, candidature, candida

Successor noun - A person who follows next in order.

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Candidate and successor are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Candidate" with "Successor", this nouns are similar.

preferred	preferred candidate	preferred successor
good	good candidate	good successor
female	female candidate	female successor
best	best candidate	best successor
Other adjectives: better, perfect, current, original, suitable, likely, obvious, popular, logical, real, potential, worthy, new, major, possible, official, next, unlikely, eventual, unofficial, closest.

One candidate is Lord Harrowmont, a fairly good natured man who is said to have been chosen by the former king himself as the successor.

Source: Not Quite the Right Thing
Usually averted only when there isn't even a candidate worthy of being considered a successor, even by a long shot.

Source: Replacement Scrappy
It helps that Toki was previously seen as a Messianic Archetype and, prior to the nuclear war, was considered (including by Kenshiro himself) to be the most suitable candidate for Hokuto Shinken successor and would probably have gotten it were it not for his illness.

Source: Villain Respect

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