governorship

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Recent Examples of governorship No Black women governors One place where there has not been a win for Black women is governorships. Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 31 July 2025 Historical precedents, including Wilson’s own contentious governorship, suggest that not all politicians thrive in executive roles. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025 Republicans are hoping to flip the governorship from blue to red, and point to last year's presidential results as a sign the state has gotten more favorable for Republicans. Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 10 June 2025 Democrats are hoping Cooper, who was fairly popular in the state during his tenure in the governorship, will jump into the race and bolster their chances of winning. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for governorship
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Noun
  • Every operational upgrade in our distribution model was carefully timed, including the introduction of new inventory management tools, team hires, vendor agreements and, eventually, a 50,000-plus square foot distribution space.
    Aleksandr Zemel, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That's double management's original target for the year.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • However, the fact that the former head of the Institute of National Remembrance is a political newcomer who was little known to the public before PiS threw its weight behind him means there is much uncertainty about how his presidency will pan out, political observers say.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Trump has not met with Putin during his presidency.
    Nik Popli, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • One interpretation is that if an AI maker has a generic generative AI that also happens to provide mental health advice, and if this is taking place without the supervision of a licensed professional, and this occurs in Illinois, the AI maker is seemingly in violation of this law.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The story revolves around a group of workers, including Joe (Whitehouse), who are digging a hole under the supervision of their boss, Goose (Church), with shovels.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The papacy essentially is a kingship, DeBernardo said.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Turn into the skid - Turning into the skid can help the vehicle's tires realign to regain control.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Aug. 2025
  • One European official told CNN that Putin had persisted with his demands for control of all of the Donbas region - something politically and practically impossible for Zelensky to concede, and which he’s already rejected.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Police in Austin, Texas, have identified the 32-year-old man taken into custody in connection with the deadly shooting outside of a Target store on Monday, Aug. 11.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Thomas Herbst, 57, was taken into custody following the sentencing hearing in Somerset County, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced in a press release.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025

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“Governorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governorship. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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