How to Use participant in a Sentence

participant

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  • The goal in the future is to have tens of thousands of participants.
    — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 1 Aug. 2023
  • About 57% or the participants were female and 63% were Black.
    — Alander Rocha, al, 14 June 2023
  • The woman paused, then awarded a medal to the next participant, skipping the girl, who was the only Black child in line.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Lopez was a frequent participant in the demonstrations at the time.
    — The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Others noted that the full study hasn’t been released yet — and the type of food the participants were eating is a crucial piece.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The program is free, and participants are not allowed to have jobs while enrolled.
    — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The vast majority of the participants in the killing were never brought to justice.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Most of the participants, sworn to an oath of secrecy, took their identities as Tea Partiers to their graves.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • All but one of the participants achieved the main goal of the study — freedom from severe pain episodes for at least one year following treatment.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Researchers instructed half of the participants to ride a bike for 30 minutes twice a week for 16 weeks.
    — Kristen Fischer, Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The meetings start with a prayer and a Pledge of Allegiance and then the participants elect a caucus chair to run the meeting, as well as a secretary to record the results.
    — Catherine Lucey, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This was the study where, on average, participants read 35 percent faster in their fastest font than in their slowest one.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • The first patient was treated just six months ago, and researchers are still following all of the participants.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Pritchett, as has been the case ever since practices before the Cal game, was a full participant in practice.
    — Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The race will start in Land Park, where competitive participants will run two loops, eat four doughnuts, and then run two more loops.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
  • An instructor quieted the room, asked for the beeping heart monitors to be shut off and turned to the participants.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Especially in a case like this one, where each participant left a distinct mark in a true group effort.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
  • One of its few guardrails merely requires the president to request that the participants disperse.
    — Gary Fields, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Trying to get human participants as patients or clients is the usual route.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • On Wednesdays, a weekly pool league takes place, with plenty of participants joining in.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Photos of participants pointing their guns at a life-sized image of a Black man were later shared to the department’s Facebook page.
    — Evan Rosen New York Daily News (tns), al, 23 June 2023
  • Garcia, a Home Run Derby participant, followed two at batters later with his 23rd blast of the season to left field.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 8 July 2023
  • For at least one year after treatment, 39 participants, or 93% of those treated, did not need a red-blood-cell transfusion.
    — Nature Magazine, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The volunteers were almost evenly split between men and women, and 20 percent of the participants were Black.
    — Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Some people’s eyebrows and eyelashes grew back, and other participants who were nearly bald due to the disease grew full heads of hair.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 7 July 2023
  • Priscilla was an active participant in bringing the story to life.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Focused instead on the boxing ring, the ring girls and the heavily tattooed fighters, the only indication that the event is out of the mainstream is that the participants’ faces have all been blurred.
    — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Taylor was listed as a full participant at practice this week.
    — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2023
  • In addition, the participant with the top bracket at each Hooters location will win a $50 Hooters gift card.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This means that many of the study participants have progressed from having severe, debilitating CVI, to a much more mild form of the disease, or no disease at all.
    — Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024

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