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hopefuls

noun as in aspirant

noun as in nominee

noun as in aspirer

noun as in petitioner

noun as in seeker

noun as in applicant

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For many Republicans presidential hopefuls, the road to the nomination passes through the Hawkeye State.

The presidential hopefuls fire up the faithful with promises to extend the Republican revolution to 2016, as Jeb Bush stays mum.

Fashion hopefuls used to cross their fingers that they would be spotted and signed while living their everyday lives.

With 18 months to go until the 2016 Iowa caucuses, Democratic presidential hopefuls are nowhere to be found in the Hawkeye State.

Heard about all the 2016 Democratic hopefuls flocking to the Hawkeye State?

As likely as not a pair of blue jays has elected to rear a brood of young hopefuls in the chimney or in a hole in the roof.

I was interested to see his manner of intimating to his young hopefuls that they had reached their majority.

The scent of that was always in the air, and Mrs. Peyser and her three hopefuls sniffed it night and day.

Scarcely had the young Hopefuls departed with their mother than the post came in, and a foreign letter arrived for Mr. Lennox.

Even discussions with parents about their young hopefuls was anything but irksome to his buoyant nature.

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On this page you'll find 175 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hopefuls, such as: applicant, candidate, contestant, competitor, hopeful, and postulant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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