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
  • Observers described Yoon’s action as political suicide, marking a spectacular downfall for the former star prosecutor who won South Korea’s presidency in 2022, a year after entering politics.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Brian Worrell, the other candidate nominated for president at last week’s meeting, had been vying for the Council presidency for months.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Sources told the Herald FitzGerald was at one point in line for Ways and Means committee chair under a potential Coletta Zapata presidency, and was offered the same budget committee chairmanship to flip to Worrell.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The board voted unanimously on his chairmanship.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 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 Capitol is waiting to see what Newsom has up his sleeve for the final budget of his governorship.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • However, the allegations of widespread fraud and mismanagement during Newsom’s governorship is not confined to those on the starboard side of the political balance beam.
    Dan Walters, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Gold First, gold, typically given to kings, not only recognized Jesus' kingship, but also highlighted his incorruptible purity.
    Nadia Cantú, AZCentral.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His socialist dictatorship, hostile to human life, crushed Venezuelans’ freedoms for years.
    Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
  • One of his uncles had been part of the resistance to the right-wing military dictatorship that controlled Greece between 1967 and 1974.
    Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • So why did Takaichi torpedo bilateral relations so early in her premiership?
    Jeff Kingston, Time, 30 Nov. 2025
  • More plans about the future of her premiership are expected to be unveiled in a major policy speech later this week, according to AP.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Filmmaking is blind instinct, petty calculations, smooth generalship, daydreaming, pig-headedness, grace, bluff, risk.
    Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
  • While his questionable generalship would be memorialized in a long poem by Alfred Tennyson, his other legacy is giving the world the sweater named after his title.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Deanship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deanship. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.

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