terming

Example Sentences

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With Councilmember Curren Price terming out in District 9, six candidates are vying to represent parts of downtown and South L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026

Board members left the door open for Carvalho’s return by terming Chait an “acting superintendent,” to fill in temporarily.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

It’s an outcome so humiliating that baseball even has a name for it, terming three strikeouts in one game as earning that player a “silver sombrero.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025

But Ramaphosa said those who wanted to leave were not happy with efforts to address the inequities of the apartheid past, terming their relocation a "sad moment for them".

From BBC • May 14, 2025

McKissick also defended the phrase, terming it an inevitable response to the “dashed hopes and mangled dreams of a people and a result of the ineffectiveness of the nonviolent movement.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson