Thesaurus results for GENERALSHIP

generalship

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as in leadership

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Recent Examples of generalship 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 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 Brunson earns the nod here as my second East backcourt starter because of his overall efficiency and floor generalship. —

Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025 Ultimately, no one commander can make the difference between winning and losing for Ukraine, O’Brien said, and the issues that Kyiv faces right now — with manpower and weaponry running low — are not ones that can be solved by exceptional generalship. —

Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2024 Chief among them: the imperial ambitions of the economics department, which has annexed English’s conference room under the generalship of its unctuous chair, Roland Gladwell, a megalomaniac who, even now, plans further advances on English territory. —

Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023 In the event, stronger morale, superior generalship, and Russia’s overconfidence (and consequent expectation of a rapid victory) proved of outsize importance. —

Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2023

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Cubans in South Florida are voicing strong opposition to Cuba's leadership, citing a growing civil and humanitarian crisis and a desire for freedom.

— Anna McAllister, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
Some observers thought that Khamenei’s death would trigger the collapse of the Iranian regime, or force the country’s new leadership to quickly seek a ceasefire.

— Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026