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The field for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” was culled Thursday to four candidates, with a winner set to be named later in the evening.

The final four nominees are President-elect Joe Biden, President Trump, the movement for racial justice, and the tag team of Dr. Anthony Fauci and front-line health care workers, the magazine revealed Thursday morning.

Time’s editors will select the final winner, to be announced during a special televised on NBC at 10 p.m.

Biden and Trump engaged in an epic race for the White House that ended with the Democratic challenger coming out on top.

The Memorial Day death of George Floyd — a black man killed beneath the knee of a white Minneapolis cop — sparked renewed protests for racial justice and police reform that raged over the summer from coast to coast.

Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert, guided government policy on the coronavirus, while doctors, nurses and first responders waged the war on the ground in the face of daily death tolls sometimes in the thousands.

Dozens of candidates — ranging from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to rapper Cardi B to ageless Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James — were put to an online vote last month, helping to narrow the field.

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The reigning person of the year is Swedish teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

Another youth, 15-year-old scientist and inventor Gitanjali Rao, was named Time’s first-ever “Kid of the Year” last week.

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