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 Liza Rankin, who represents District 1, and Lisa Rivera Smith, District 2, extended their leads very slightly.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

“A thoroughly useful and practical work, and just the one which ought to be in the hands both of Incumbents and Churchwardens.”

From Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages by Sumner, George Henry