officeholder

Example Sentences

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The officeholder also leads the more than 6,000 members of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

We have an investigative process in this country to which no former officeholder is immune.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2023

Typically in a U.S. legislative body, it is the House of Representatives that impeaches an officeholder, charging him or her with wrongdoing.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

The biography also said York was involved in raising $150,000 for Garcetti’s officeholder account.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

The Cits held office only a couple of years and, knowin' that they would never be in again, each Cit officeholder held on for dear life to every dollar that came his way.

From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington