incumbent
Example Sentences
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Keeping these institutions alive isn’t progressive—it’s a transfer from poorly informed future students to incumbent institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Inmate votes were especially key in the 2024 gubernatorial primary as González-Colón, a longtime New Progressive Party member, was challenging the incumbent governor of the same party.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
It is not merely the defeat of a three-term incumbent, but the completion of the party's long march into eastern India.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
He is targeting a key Senate seat in Maine, where longtime Republican incumbent Susan Collins is seen as vulnerable.
From Barron's • May 3, 2026
Twice champion of the USSR, he’d won the 1958 Portorož Interzonal, becoming a front runner to play the incumbent titleholder, Mikhail Botvinnik, for the World Championship in 1960.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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