deanship

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Recent Examples of deanship An additional $5 million will fund a deanship, $3 million will support a chair in biomedical engineering, and $5 million will establish a research fund for faculty fellowships, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaboration. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deanship
Noun
  • His use of the presidency’s sweeping ability to unilaterally grant pardons and commute sentences is among the ways the Republican’s return to office has featured an expansive use of executive power.
    Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • The disaster is becoming the defining challenge of Rodríguez’s interim presidency.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Quinn also made the decision to go play piano in New York at the end of last season after a steamy back and forth with Staten, whose father (Brett Cullen) challenged him for chairmanship of the Double K Ranch.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 June 2026
  • That is the inheritance now facing Warsh, who has openly cast Greenspan as a model for his own chairmanship.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Carvalho’s later Form 700s — for the entire period of his superintendency — are nearly blank.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • The fallout In the aftermath of the UFT’s formal notice, a letter campaign was launched that asked Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels not to appoint Lynch-Reyes to the permanent superintendency.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Housing and affordability Each candidate describes housing affordability as a key hurdle for the next governor — and touts his proposal as a marquee policy for his governorship.
    Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 25 June 2026
  • Modern leaders Ever since the anti-immigrant 1990s governorship of the Protestant Pete Wilson, our governors, all Catholic, have defended immigrants.
    Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • York is told that Somerset is imprisoned in the Tower of London, but when this is disproved by Somerset’s entrance, York announces his claim to the kingship.
    Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In the ancient kingship tradition, endangering the empire would cause a king to lose his farr.
    Azadeh Moaveni, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • His story stretches beyond sports, touching one of Haiti’s many mysteries of Haiti’s brutal Duvalier dictatorship and reflecting on the outsize role Haitians have long played in shaping American history.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • Virtually all contemporary dictatorships are cosplay democracies with term limits, elections, and legislatures—the few ruling, as Amos Perlmutter put it, in the name of the many.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • However, he is not allowed to make new major policy announcements or spending commitments during what remains of his premiership.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Yet meaningful change has been slow to materialize, souring views of Starmer’s premiership and inflicting heavy losses on the Labour Party in local government elections in May, which virtually sealed his fate.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Suggs is listed as the team’s point guard, but because of his tendency for turnovers and general lack of floor generalship, the coaches have deployed him more as a 3-and-D player.
    Josh Robbins, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • There’s talk that this could be EMRO’s turn to hold the director-generalship.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Apr. 2026

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“Deanship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deanship. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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