incumbency
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Park is seeking her second term with the benefit of incumbency and the backing of two powerful unions, the Los Angeles Police Protective League and the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
The shift to AI data centers is driving an expansion of the total addressable market for optical components “well beyond Coherent’s incumbency in the traditional pluggable transceiver market,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026
Amid what the analyst describes as an “AI-driven transformation of the data center,” the total addressable market for optics is expanding “well beyond Coherent’s incumbency in the traditional pluggable transceiver market.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Mr. Miyares, whose mother fled Cuba, has the advantage of incumbency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
A generation or two ago, perhaps, it was not considered wrong to look upon an incumbency as merely providing an income and a house, just as any secular post might.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
Joe Crowley and Eliot Engel lost their primaries to energetic challengers because they were arrogant and too comfortable in their incumbencies.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
You can’t run for alderman and mayor at the same time, so the mayoral slate didn’t include any of the city’s elected officials, who would have had to rashly sacrifice their incumbencies.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2018
With long incumbencies, said Professor Zimring of the University of California, Berkeley, “innovation is very difficult, and new blood may need new veins and organizational arteries.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
One thinks of time in terms of production schedules and amortizations, the other in terms of incumbencies and election days.
From Time Magazine Archive
The native party consequently declared that the friars retained their incumbencies illegally and by intrusion, in view of the sufficiency of Philippine secular priests.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
