During her mayoralty, the mayor greatly improved the city.
He won the mayoralty in the last two elections.
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This must be stopped, and his mayoralty should be terminated immediately.—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025 Like the Rudy Giuliani mayoralty, but sort of impotent in ruthlessness, the Adams administration has loved to identify a scourge, an opportunity to conjure existential threats of social breakdown that the mayor’s office can then claim to heal.—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025 Arrest America’s mayor Even before Mamdani won the mayoralty, Trump suggested arresting Mamdani and stripping him of his citizenship if Mamdani didn't assist on federal immigration enforcement.—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 8 Nov. 2025 The first insight of Mamdani’s campaign was that the gloom and doom about crime that defined Eric Adams’s mayoralty was fading, with voters getting more worried about the cost of living.—David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mayoralty
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Etymology
Middle English mairaltee, from Anglo-French mairalté, from maire
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