as in candidate
one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award
an experienced campaigner who knows that one televised mistake can put an end to one's candidacy
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Recent Examples of campaigner
Ahangarani’s experience as a campaigner for Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition leader in 2009, provides the fodder for the fourth chapter.
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Alissa Simon, Variety, 16 May 2026
This is why India’s story must be understood as part of a much larger shift, because the fossil-free economy is not arriving only because campaigners demanded it, but because the economics of energy have changed.
—Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
But so far the mood has been supportive, said Daniel Kapp, a PR consultant and pro-Israel campaigner.
—ABC News, 14 May 2026
But even larger numbers of socially conservative white working-class voters in Wales, Scotland and northern England — the traditional bedrock of Labour’s support — switched to Reform, the insurgent party founded by Nigel Farage, the renowned Brexit campaigner.
—Ian King, CNBC, 13 May 2026
The report was publicly endorsed by a number of high-profile experts and campaigners, including Sheryl Sandberg and Hillary Clinton.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
Hosted by comedian Greg Davies, tonight’s awards represented BAFTA and the BBC’s first big test since the Film Awards, when tourette’s campaigner John Davidson involuntarily yelled a racial slur at the stars of Sinners.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 May 2026
The main beneficiary was the populist Reform UK party of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which gained more than 350 council seats in England, and could form the main opposition in Scotland and Wales to the pro-independence Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru in results later on Friday.
—Andrew MacAskill, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Governments could clearly define and enforce legal constraints that reflect the expectations of society, without being influenced by AI campaigners.
—Ahmed Hamza, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
Alissa Simon, Variety, 16 May 2026
This is why India’s story must be understood as part of a much larger shift, because the fossil-free economy is not arriving only because campaigners demanded it, but because the economics of energy have changed.
—Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
But so far the mood has been supportive, said Daniel Kapp, a PR consultant and pro-Israel campaigner.
—ABC News, 14 May 2026
But even larger numbers of socially conservative white working-class voters in Wales, Scotland and northern England — the traditional bedrock of Labour’s support — switched to Reform, the insurgent party founded by Nigel Farage, the renowned Brexit campaigner.
—Ian King, CNBC, 13 May 2026
The report was publicly endorsed by a number of high-profile experts and campaigners, including Sheryl Sandberg and Hillary Clinton.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
Hosted by comedian Greg Davies, tonight’s awards represented BAFTA and the BBC’s first big test since the Film Awards, when tourette’s campaigner John Davidson involuntarily yelled a racial slur at the stars of Sinners.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 May 2026
The main beneficiary was the populist Reform UK party of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which gained more than 350 council seats in England, and could form the main opposition in Scotland and Wales to the pro-independence Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru in results later on Friday.
—Andrew MacAskill, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Governments could clearly define and enforce legal constraints that reflect the expectations of society, without being influenced by AI campaigners.
—Ahmed Hamza, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for campaigner
candidate
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Baker’s Stanford is a strong candidate, and his book follows in the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Wall Street chronicle Liar’s Poker, but with more pimples and less eye contact.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt took his campaign to South Los Angeles on Wednesday, in a neighborhood incumbent Mayor Karen Bass represented during her years in Congress.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2026
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“Campaigner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campaigner. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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