seniority

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Recent Examples of seniority Workday employees who lose their jobs won’t be able to displace other workers for the company, even if those who are laid off have seniority over others. George Avalos, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025 Braman also said the policies governing those different transmission modes — and the level of seniority needed in the Army to waive the transmissions — has since been elevated. Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025 Signal is reportedly already a frequent choice for officials at all levels of seniority in the second Trump term. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025 Their other concerns involve professional development and seniority issues. Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seniority
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seniority
Noun
  • As populations’ median ages continue to rise — and the future looks increasingly hazardous for all age groups — more movies are touching on senility, dementia, elder abuse and other topics that not long ago rarely got any screen airing.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Salles doesn’t clarify his viewpoint until the end, when Eunice ages into senility.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Erie Meyer, former chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, resigned in February after DOGE members began asking for data privileges.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Parents have the privilege and opportunity to establish the foundation for leadership by encouraging autonomy, nurturing leader identity, and making room for failure, learning, and growth.
    Ruth Oh Reitmeier, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Those that wait for AI maturity risk losing ground as industries evolve and competitors leverage AI to enhance decision making, efficiency and growth.
    Leslie Lee, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Shough will turn 26 in September and was in the same recruiting class as Trevor Lawrence, who’s about to enter his fifth NFL season — so maturity shouldn’t be an issue.
    Zak Keefer, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In more traditional corporate environments, polish and professionalism may take precedence.
    Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Practicing proper etiquette and being kind should always take precedence over having material things.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The heroes of the team are now in their dotage so the time to strike again is here and now.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Butler remains a talented, if mercurial, two-way star, even in his relative dotage at age 35 with 14 years of mileage — including two runs to the Finals with Miami — under his belt.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Like its predecessors, the Trump administration has a legitimate prerogative to make major policy changes, even ones that many Americans may consider ill advised.
    Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In a series of rulings over the past month on Trump's emergency requests to override low-level judicial roadblocks, the high court's conservative majority has been neither a rubber stamp for the president nor an aggressive check on his prerogative.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While most debates, especially online, aren't so clear cut, the majority agrees that even the most skilled men are no match for a gorilla.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • These provinces are home to the majority of Canadians, and could give a good indication as to how different demographics and ridings nationwide have voted.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With the Soviet Union’s collapse, the United States enjoyed a margin of superiority that would have been unimaginable to earlier great powers.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Will this Lucid’s obvious superiority from a rational perspective be able to offset the minivan-esque styling?
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Seniority.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seniority. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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