incumbent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with incumbent, each labelled with its topic.

• The incumbent won by nine points, helped by name recognition and a challenger who started campaigning in August.

  Politics

• Shareholders voted out the incumbent and installed a chair who promised to sell the loss making division.

  Business

• The court ruled that the incumbent must vacate the chambers within ten days of the certified result.

  Law

• The parish incumbent kept the baptism register for forty years, and his careful hand is why the village's family trees survive.

  History

• The orchestra's incumbent, now in his twelfth season as music director, announced he would step down after the spring tour.

  Music

• The league's owners reelected the incumbent as commissioner, judging that a new face would unsettle the television talks.

  Basketball

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More Academic words

• stabilizing
• consultation
• clarifying
• distort
• credibility
• conform
• specification
• induce
• equivalence
• assuring
• diverge
• propensity