incumbency
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That will lead to jobs cuts — a small team of workers using AI already matches the output of a bigger company, growing without having to rely on years of hiring, with incumbency less important.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
In that contest, which he won handily, he had the major advantage of incumbency after being appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to fill the vacancy caused by then-Atty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
But recent state elections suggest that extensive welfare delivery alone is no longer enough to secure incumbency.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Amid what the analyst describes as an “AI-driven transformation of the data center,” the total addressable market for optics is expanding “well beyond Coherent’s incumbency in the traditional pluggable transceiver market.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Mr. Brontë, after having been nearly five years minister of Hartshead-cum-Clifton, resigned the benefice, and accepted, from the vicar of Bradford, the incumbency of Thornton, a perpetual curacy in that parish.
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland
Joe Crowley and Eliot Engel lost their primaries to energetic challengers because they were arrogant and too comfortable in their incumbencies.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
You can’t run for alderman and mayor at the same time, so the mayoral slate didn’t include any of the city’s elected officials, who would have had to rashly sacrifice their incumbencies.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2018
With long incumbencies, said Professor Zimring of the University of California, Berkeley, “innovation is very difficult, and new blood may need new veins and organizational arteries.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
One thinks of time in terms of production schedules and amortizations, the other in terms of incumbencies and election days.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Assembly agreed to and proposed good and appropriate reforms, amongst which was that relating to the incumbencies which were monopolized by the friars.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
