"finalist candidate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is among the finalists in a competition. For example: "Greg was selected as a finalist candidate in the science fair."
Among them, he said, some committee members received information on finalist candidates past 9 30 p.m. on a Sunday, less than 12 hours before interviews on Monday morning, making it difficult to "prepare intelligently".
So they built a fake search engine called Kadoodle that returned a list of 30 websites for the finalist candidates, 15 for Tony Abbott and 15 for Julia Gillard.
Public forums can benefit the finalist candidates as well as the students and faculty, said Craig Smith, a professor of communication studies at Cal State Long Beach.
And in that process the lead fell to Mr. Babbitt, the former Arizona governor, trained geologist, one-time presidential candidate, finalist for a spot on the Supreme Court, and member of a prominent ranching family who used his plain-spoken manner and longtime knowledge of land issues to prod Mr. Clinton toward an aggressive course.
"I think it's no coincidence that two of the three candidate finalists came from Asia.
Robert Hübner, the 1980 Candidates finalist and one of the world's top analysts, scrutinized the book.
A Yale University spokesman said Williams's résumé did include an entry for being a Rhodes scholar candidate, not a finalist.
Dr. Angell, who was a finalist, withdrew recently as a candidate and said she was retiring to write a book on alternative medicine.
Meanwhile, Valentine said he wanted the job so badly that he was afraid to allow himself to think too much about it for fear of the disappointment should it go to the other finalist, Gene Lamont, the one other candidate with previous big-league experience.
A group of black leaders tried to prevent the splitting of black votes in the Feb. 22 mayor's election by picking Mr. Davis as their preferred candidate over other finalists, including Mr. Meeks and Ms. Braun.
