incumbency

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

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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

He purposed to spend a few weeks in preliminary surveys of the ground, announcing that his sixty days' incumbency of the governorship would begin on January 1.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

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

—Poet and translator, b. at Haslington, Cheshire, and ed. at Eton and Camb., entered the Church, and held various incumbencies.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin