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Recent Examples of governorship
Newsom’s Department of Finance and the Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, agree that the structural deficit, at least $10 billion a year and as much as $30 billion, will continue at least through the remainder of Newsom’s governorship.
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Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
Should Newsom et al bail out Los Angeles, these other local entities will demand similar largesse from a state budget already hemorrhaging red ink and that faces the likelihood of deficits at least through the remainder of Newsom’s governorship and probably longer.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 31 Mar. 2025
Harris has one political decision looming: whether to run for the California governorship.
—David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Several who’ve held the job, including Jerry Brown and his father, Pat, made the leap directly to the governorship.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
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Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
Should Newsom et al bail out Los Angeles, these other local entities will demand similar largesse from a state budget already hemorrhaging red ink and that faces the likelihood of deficits at least through the remainder of Newsom’s governorship and probably longer.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 31 Mar. 2025
Harris has one political decision looming: whether to run for the California governorship.
—David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Several who’ve held the job, including Jerry Brown and his father, Pat, made the leap directly to the governorship.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governorship
Noun
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The anchor has not been afraid to challenge CBS News management in the past.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2025
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Mahon, who has a PhD in medical physics, joined Channel 4 after senior management roles at VFX biz The Foundry and UK production group Shine, which is now part of Banijay.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
28 Apr. 2025
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His father is on the fence about Ocasio-Cortez, comparing her situation to Barack Obama, who briefly served in the U.S. Senate from Illinois before running for and winning the presidency in 2008.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Apr. 2025
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Fox noted the latest number is lower than where all of his most recent predecessors were at this point in their presidencies.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
24 Apr. 2025
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Christopher Wheeldon is directing and choreographing, and music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations are in the two-time Tony-winning hands of Tom Kitt.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
23 Apr. 2025
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The musical will be directed by Christopher Wheeldon (MJ: The Musical), with music supervision by Tom Kitt (Next to Normal).—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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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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In exchange for help from the league in obtaining loans, a country had to accept the league’s superintendence of its economic affairs.—
Branko Milanovic,
Foreign Affairs,
21 June 2022
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The papacy essentially is a kingship, DeBernardo said.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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In all this, Jesus was retrieving and modeling some of the remarkable kingship themes from Israel’s own scriptures.—
N.T. Wright,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The Hanged Man asks you to fully surrender control and embrace this chapter of stillness.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 2025
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That proposal would see Moscow de facto control parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions that Russia occupies but does not fully control.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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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
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The superintendency for the largest suburban school district in southwest Ohio became vacant in January 2023, after former superintendent Matt Miller said a board member bullied him out of his position.—
Bebe Hodges,
The Enquirer,
4 May 2024
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He was taken into custody and released due to overcrowding at the U.S. Border Patrol facility.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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According to the suit, at one point as VML's father tried to secure her release, New Orleans ICE Field Office Director Mellissa Harper began interrogating the family's attorney about the father's immigration status and attempted to lure him into custody as well.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Governorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governorship. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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