incumbency

“We see how people react to incumbency, and so all the more reason for you to be connected to your community and respond to community,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

But she also noted that Mastercard and Visa have “two-sided networks across billions of consumers and hundreds of millions of merchants” that confer major incumbency advantages.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

“You’ve got a huge incumbency advantage having the megawatts today,” says Energy Capital Partners’ Kimmelman.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

Mr. Miyares, whose mother fled Cuba, has the advantage of incumbency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

But his impracticabilities lose him the place after a very short incumbency; he crosses to Italy; sees Naples, Amain, and Vesuvius; sees, and knows well at Rome, our American painter, Washington Allston.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell

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

It was suggested that some of the revenues of the larger sees should be diverted for the benefit of the smaller incumbencies.

From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon