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Recent Examples of governorship
Aguilar was charged with driving while impaired in Cabarrus County in 2020, during Cooper’s governorship, but failed to appear in court in 2022, according to court records.
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Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
The California governorship is not usually a role of international leadership, but Newsom has given it the appearance of one.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
At the time, Gatti did not see a mayoralty, governorship, or a presidency on the horizon.
—Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
As senate president at the time, Codey was next in line to the governorship because the state had not yet established the position of lieutenant governor.
—Christine Sloan, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
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Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
The California governorship is not usually a role of international leadership, but Newsom has given it the appearance of one.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
At the time, Gatti did not see a mayoralty, governorship, or a presidency on the horizon.
—Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
As senate president at the time, Codey was next in line to the governorship because the state had not yet established the position of lieutenant governor.
—Christine Sloan, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governorship
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Residents may require medication management and may have previously posed a potential risk to harm themselves or others, but any aggressive behavior must have occurred no less than six months prior to being admitted.—
Gabriela Vidal,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Through its program on border management, anti-corruption and criminal justice, the office has been supporting Haitian institutions to address the broader issues that continue to fuel instability and violence in the country.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2026
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Hanson previously pleaded guilty to threatening the president and successors to the presidency.—
Rey Covarrubias Jr,
AZCentral.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Several journalists have pointed out that reporting about military casualties predates Trump’s presidency.—
David Bauder,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Jill Hanlin spent many years either incarcerated or on supervision after release, and consequently has spent time ineligible to cast a ballot in the state of Missouri.—
Jack Harvel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2026
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The attorney emphasized that the family, all immigrants, were under asylum protection and had been following a supervision order that should have prevented deportation.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2026
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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
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And like any City Council committee chairmanship, the position comes with a budget to hire staff.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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Their huge fortunes are the legitimate wages of superintendence; in the struggle for existence, money is the token of success.—
Jeffery Vacante,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 2025
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The era of progressive superintendence ironically began with the spread of disinformation, Buzzfeed’s release of the infamous Trump dossier.—
The Editors,
National Review,
31 Oct. 2022
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This brings the note of tragic kingship.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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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
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Because the diagnosis was so unusual, zoo staff examined the bodies of 64 free-ranging roof rats that had either been euthanized in the course of regular pest control or found dead on the property.—
Susanne Rust
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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These adjustments, referred to as population controls, are likely to show steep downward revisions to both population and labor-force levels – largely reflecting reduced immigration.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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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
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Massey teaches the superintendency course and the principalship course at the University of Minnesota.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Governorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governorship. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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