How to Use applicant in a Sentence

applicant

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  • We interviewed 30 qualified applicants for the job.
  • Half of the applicants face denial, sometimes more than once.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Get clear on what sets you apart from fellow applicants.
    — Dr. Kyle Elliott, Mpa, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But some applicants could need to answer as few as 18 questions and be able to do so in less than 10 minutes.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Mayor Steve Vaus moved that an appointment be made with the proviso that the applicants sign a pledge not to run in the next election.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • The scholarship funds part of the application process to a business school of the applicants choosing.
    — Matt Symonds, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In its first year, the program had 49 applicants and 19 graduates.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023
  • In Trible’s first decade as president, the number of CNU applicants soared and its acceptance rate dropped from 82% to about half.
    — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But the bigger factor was that these colleges were more likely to accept the richest applicants.
    — Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • The applicant is offering to buy the restaurant and became a franchisee of Scooter's Coffee.
    — Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In the end, the company was left with fewer than 500 people, or 3% of applicants, to interview for the positions.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Here’s my advice to the first generation of post-GPT applicants: Beat the machine by signaling that there’s a human on the other end of the line.
    — Dan Lichterman, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Last year, there were 26 applicants per seat at Stuyvesant, for example, and 24 per seat at Townsend Harris, a selective school in Queens.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Out of almost 500 applicants, two of us went in that particular year.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The license awards went to the applicants receiving the highest scores in most categories with a few exceptions.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • With proof of purchase, applicants could be entitled to a full refund via cash or vouchers.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The number of rebate applicants in most cities has not risen dramatically over the years.
    — The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
  • He was chosen after a three-month process that gathered 69 applicants for the position.
    — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2023
  • The League uses a combination of humans and algorithms to screen all the applicants.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The copyright office requires applicants to disclose the parts of their work created by AI.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Anchorage city leaders had $50 million to hand out to local applicants, and the money moved fast.
    — Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2023
  • The candidate forms don’t instruct applicants to list previous names, and the statute is not listed in the state’s 33-page candidate guide.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Some early agencies, like the Post Office and the Patent Office, funded their budgets by fees levied on customers and applicants.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Here, would-be applicants are welcome to ask all their questions about benefits, schedules, and all the perks that come with being a crew member.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The minuscule number of remaining visas compared with the number of applicants left in Afghanistan puts the onus on Congress to expand the program.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The applicant is on one side, unable to see what a company wants to see in a job candidate or what the likelihood of getting an offer.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
  • To obtain the visa, applicants must prove a minimum monthly income of at least three times the minimum salary in Colombia.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2023
  • In the 1950s, leaders of the school began planning the move to Towson to accommodate the growing number of applicants to the elementary and high schools.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Successful applicants will be paid an hourly rate, the BBC reported.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 7 Mar. 2024
  • And while the installment loans draw higher shares of applicants with nonprime credit, roughly half of BNPL users have prime or near-prime scores.
    — Christine Romans, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023

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