Other plausible candidates for the dark surface materials include rock, various salts and organic compounds.

He was forced to look to quantum theory for a plausible candidate.

But the Republicans can't get a plausible candidate to run.

The third slot poses a harder choice among the three plausible candidates remaining.

The most plausible candidate for this role is a large subsurface ocean of liquid saltwater.

The officials said that a final decision had not been made and that there was at least one other plausible candidate.

As a plausible candidate for the throne Gundovald could attract to himself those whose careers were under threat.

They persisted in seeing it as the solidest, most plausible candidate.

They said there was one other plausible candidate, a former United States attorney whom they would not name.

Nobody I could see seemed a plausible candidate to be with anyone that pretty and that young.