incumbent
Example Sentences
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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.
Developers must also ensure a steady pipeline of fresh content for today's long-lived online games, with "Rainbow Six" facing competition from incumbents such as "Call of Duty", "Valorant" or "Overwatch".
From Barron's
But most of them fail because they are incumbents, not new entrants, managers, not entrepreneurs.
Her victory over David Ryu was the first time in 17 years that a challenger ousted a City Council incumbent.
From Los Angeles Times
“While the AI transition is more disruptive than the shift to Cloud, incumbents that embrace the transition should emerge as L-T winners as IP value resides in software.”
From Barron's
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