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Presidencies are supposed to act as neutral and honest brokers of the process, cajoling and sometimes dragging countries along and making key procedural decisions.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2023

The two leaders will also “discuss their priorities for their respective Presidencies of the G-7 and G-20,” the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said in a press statement.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023

Presidencies last longer than a TV season and you have to be able to build an audience and sustain it.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2015

Print use of “creepiness,” after holding steady for a couple of postwar decades, began climbing precipitously during the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton Presidencies, a fact that will shock no one.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 9, 2015

I think that the Legislative branch of the Governor-General's Council should be a channel through which officers of the other Presidencies may be introduced into the Secretariat and Council at Calcutta.

From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by James, Eighth Earl of Elgin