Thesaurus results for TENURES

tenures

noun

plural of tenure

as in terms

a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position during his tenure as president the college experienced steady growth

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Recent Examples of tenures Her career also includes tenures at Crackle/Sony Pictures Television, MTV Networks and Al Jazeera America. —

Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026 The 65-year-old boasts one of the longest tenures in Big Tech as a non-founding CEO. —

Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026 Polls released this week found Mamdani’s approval rating at 42%, per a poll from Emerson College — lower than that of former mayors Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio at the same point in their tenures. —

Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026 Simon is the first woman to oversee the show, following tenures by Don Hewitt, Jeff Fager and Bill Owens. —

Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026 The Mansion legacy The Mansion has made 20 total appearances in James Beard awards results, the most of any restaurant in Texas, across the tenures of several of Dallas’ most notable chefs. —

Dallas Morning News, 29 Mar. 2026 Both Brent Celek and Hollis Thomas built significant NFL careers wearing midnight green, though their tenures with the franchise didn’t quite intersect. —

Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026 It was installed league-wide in 2003 after two Black head coaches, Tony Dungy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dennis Green of the Minnesota Vikings were fired despite winning tenures. —

Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026 The company has enjoyed long tenures of both co-founder Barbara Crockett and husband-wife team Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda, who led the company for about 30 years. —

Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated Wednesday that Moscow’s fundamental terms are unchanged, with Putin insisting that Ukraine pull its troops from the four regions — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — that Russia illegally annexed in September 2022 but hasn’t fully captured.

— Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
The White House has very little control over the regional Fed presidents, who are hired to five-year terms by the board of each regional bank and then approved by the Fed's Board of Governors.

— Joe Walsh, CBS News, 13 May 2026