Example Sentences

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Incumbents argue that trading experience for a fresh face is a false promise.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Incumbents that increasingly use AI as part of their core processes, like Microsoft and Alphabet, will lose monopoly power as it lessens the degree to which they are differentiated.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Incumbents have a way of figuring it out.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2025

Incumbents Jessica Forsythe and Vanessa Kritzer ran unopposed for their seats.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023

We give elsewhere a list of the Incumbents of St. Mary’s, but we may here refer to probably the most distinguished of them all. 

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway