incumbent
Example Sentences
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Now, with her surprise, last-minute entry into the mayor’s race, the 44-year-old Silver Lake resident is hoping to defeat another incumbent, Karen Bass, by expanding on the formula that led to her first upset victory.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet many of these incumbents have yearslong wait lists for power turbines, opening up an opportunity for new market participants.
But first a new parliamentary president would have to be elected, as the incumbent is acting in an interim capacity.
From Barron's
But incumbent CEOs are generally stepping down sooner than they traditionally have.
He still has a valid claim at least to being the outsider who keeps beating the incumbents at their own game of nonstop, seven-day-a-week cynicism.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
