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seniority

noun

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as in senility

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Recent Examples of seniority With the promoter model, influence is spread across three people—technology, process, and power promoters—who may be in different departments, at different levels of seniority, and who might never share a reporting line. — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026 There is a procedure for those laid off based on seniority and their category of employment. — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026 Age and seniority have become pressing topics in Congress, hitting a fever pitch in 2024 after a groundswell of calls from Democrats for Joe Biden to drop out of the race. — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2026 Larson locked in, spending more than $2 million against Bronin and arguing that the state needed his seniority. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seniority
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seniority
  1. senility
  2. privilege
  3. maturity
  4. precedence
  5. dotage
  6. prerogative
  7. oldness
  8. preference
Noun
  • Her cause of death was chronic nephritis with senility, according to The Herald News.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Then the interview happens, and Thomas is swinging between lucidity and senility, and a million things about their relationship come up, and the fiction records the interview the phone couldn’t capture.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Definition of senility
Noun
  • Today, about two-thirds of Florida homeowners trust companies many had never heard of before to safeguard their homes and possessions – while paying thousands of dollars each year for the privilege.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
  • On Sunday, Bitman filed an emergency motion seeking to deactivate Evans’ e‑filing privileges while Carrot Top continues to recover.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of privilege
Noun
  • That ability to mobilize private investment alongside public investment is a strong sign of confidence in Spanish audiovisual production and the sector’s industrial maturity.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026
  • T-bills T-bills, securities with a maturity of one year or less, react to the Fed's rate moves, Gunster pointed out.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of maturity
Noun
  • This commonality appears to take precedence over foreign-policy concerns.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Moments like this are really what Housewives is supposed to be about — a genuine sisterhood with deep ties that take precedence over superfluous conflicts.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of precedence
Noun
  • Far from being a sign of dotage, scientists concurred, music practice in old age confers all kinds of cognitive benefits.
    — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
  • In his basketball dotage, Kyle Lowry is getting soft.
    — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Definition of dotage
Noun
  • The evening was beautiful, strange, and so far removed from the prerogatives of retail as to suggest that its entire purpose was not to have one.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • These appointments are not a pure presidential prerogative, just as the Justice Department itself is not intended to be an arm of the White House.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of prerogative
Noun
  • Then there were some streaks of about three hundred people identifying the advent of oldness to the early, mid, and late sixties.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Definition of oldness
Noun
  • The crowd becomes an external regulator of internal preference.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Sussman is inclined to see such preferences as further evidence of capitalism’s moral failings.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of preference

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“Seniority.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seniority. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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