tenure
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Maybe they can get tenure by embracing and touting these ideas and getting a citation from a Supreme Court justice, maybe even a majority opinion.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026
Before her tenure at the White House as press secretary, she had a long career working with Trump, first as an assistant press secretary and speech writer during his first term in office.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Leavitt's tenure as press secretary saw a revival of regular briefings that had petered out during the first term, but she presided over sea change on White House interactions with journalists.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
As the second-most powerful official in the Communist Party and state from 1998-2003, under President Jiang Zemin, Zhu made economic reform the focus of his tenure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Hell, he made me,” Sproul would say later of the scientist whose tenure at Berkeley coincided almost exactly with his own.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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