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
  • During his presidency, the players successfully negotiated the current collective bargaining agreement, which runs through 2030.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The Security Council meeting is taking place on the last day of the United Kingdom’s presidency and a day before the United States takes over the rotating presidency for the month of March.
    Edith M. Lederer, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But Burchett is promising to use his chairmanship to uncover further misconduct on Capitol Hill and will try to obtain the settlement case files kept by the Office of Compliance.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And like any City Council committee chairmanship, the position comes with a budget to hire staff.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Massey teaches the superintendency course and the principalship course at the University of Minnesota.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As the superintendency reports, continued archaeological investigations will hopefully reveal more about the tomb and the surrounding necropolis, which may illuminate the social history of the ancient Neapolitan community that used it.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
Noun
  • The keynote rebuttal typically goes to a rising star in the opposition party, and Spanberger secured one of the Democrats’ biggest wins last year, flipping Virginia’s governorship by a 15-point margin.
    Julia Terruso, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • And as his governorship winds down, the state’s Democratic Party seems to be moving leftward.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This brings the note of tragic kingship.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Trump, by contrast, ordered the capture of a leader already under narcoterrorism indictment and framed it as a drug bust and accountability for crimes, yet his opponents denounce him as aspiring to kingship and dictatorship.
    Paul Vallas, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • GDPs skyrocket; cities are powered by clean nuclear fusion; dictatorships fall across the world; humanity begins to colonize the stars.
    Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Those under occupation, dictatorship, persecution, and those experiencing genocide.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • After the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland joined those calls earlier this month, Starmer’s chief of staff and communications director quit, and his premiership teetered on the brink.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The unfolding Mandelson scandal threatened to topple Starmer’s premiership, with the bitter fallout leading to the resignations of key advisers and growing calls from senior Labour Party figures for the British prime minister to step down.
    Peter Wilkinson, CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • UConn lured him out of the transfer portal from Georgia to solidify its court generalship, so vital to the kind of offense Dan Hurley likes to run.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2026
  • At war, his brilliant generalship and loyal army enabled him to overcome the odds that threatened his victories.
    Paul Vanderbroeck, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026

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“Deanship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deanship. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.

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