frontrunner

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So as a replacement for.com, I'm not really sure what the frontrunner is now.

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Alternative form of front runner. [(idiomatic) Any of the most likely winners in a contest, election, etc.]

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noun

Alternative form of front runner. [(idiomatic) Any of the most likely winners in a contest, election, etc.]

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noun

Alternative form of front runner. [(idiomatic) Any of the most likely winners in a contest, election, etc.]

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So as a replacement for.com, I'm not really sure what the frontrunner is now.

When there is a monopoly on exploiting these information rents (as in frontrunning), they will be captured by the frontrunner.

Deis[1] is the frontrunner at the moment, but a DIY solution is more appealing to me.

But Haskell is not one of those frontrunner languages to take over from the slapped-together old guard of Perl, PHP, Python, and JS.

Ted Cruz is incredibly popular and a frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination.

He's definitely not a frontrunner for the 2016 nomination.

I suspected that Java would be a frontrunner.

I don't envy being John Doerr - unless Pao was an absolutely clear frontrunner for becoming a senior partner, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

(which was quite suspect given the Netherlands, quite often respected for being a frontrunner country when it comes to equality in many forms, including gender, came in last by a wide margin.

That hasn't been the case for a while, but with the recent speed improvements in the past few years, prompted by NoSQL, and MySQL's troubles with Oracle, Postgres has become the Open Source SQL frontrunner, and everybody's taking it in really interesting directions.

While I'm inclined to agree that Kademlia is the frontrunner for DHTs, I'd like to comment on: > it has the advantage of naturally not depending on other peers behaving correctly This is, depending on the variety of pedantic hat you put on, not true.