governorship

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Recent Examples of governorship Newsom’s Department of Finance and the Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, agree that the structural deficit, at least $10 billion a year and as much as $30 billion, will continue at least through the remainder of Newsom’s governorship. Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025 Should Newsom et al bail out Los Angeles, these other local entities will demand similar largesse from a state budget already hemorrhaging red ink and that faces the likelihood of deficits at least through the remainder of Newsom’s governorship and probably longer. Dan Walters, Oc Register, 31 Mar. 2025 Harris has one political decision looming: whether to run for the California governorship. David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025 Several who’ve held the job, including Jerry Brown and his father, Pat, made the leap directly to the governorship. Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for governorship
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Noun
  • The anchor has not been afraid to challenge CBS News management in the past.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Although anyone can pay their rent and earn rewards with Bilt, the company’s Bilt Alliance network of 4.5 rental homes integrates payment platforms with property management systems.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For more on the presidency and tax-exempt status, check out: Why Trump’s Efforts To Revoke Tax Exemptions Are So Dangerous For Democracy Can Trump Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status?
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • President Donald Trump’s second term is testing the boundaries of Article II executive power like no presidency before.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Connelly is accused of a bevy of misdeeds in the letter, including instructing West on how to self-administer nitrous oxide without any medical supervision or safeguards.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2025
  • She was sentenced in 2018 to a maximum of 40 years of state mental health supervision.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Their huge fortunes are the legitimate wages of superintendence; in the struggle for existence, money is the token of success.
    Jeffery Vacante, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2025
  • In exchange for help from the league in obtaining loans, a country had to accept the league’s superintendence of its economic affairs.
    Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
Noun
  • The papacy essentially is a kingship, DeBernardo said.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In all this, Jesus was retrieving and modeling some of the remarkable kingship themes from Israel’s own scriptures.
    N.T. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Hanged Man asks you to fully surrender control and embrace this chapter of stillness.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 May 2025
  • The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As the superintendency reports, continued archaeological investigations will hopefully reveal more about the tomb and the surrounding necropolis, which may illuminate the social history of the ancient Neapolitan community that used it.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • The superintendency for the largest suburban school district in southwest Ohio became vacant in January 2023, after former superintendent Matt Miller said a board member bullied him out of his position.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 4 May 2024
Noun
  • The impostors then stole two hot dogs and menaced the vendor with a knife before taking off on Seventh Ave., heading toward 44th St. Cops took one man into custody following the heist, and are looking for a second person dressed in a red hoodie, black pants and black and white sneakers.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 May 2025
  • After that, Miguel dropped Paola off at her friend's house in Durham and later that day, Paola's friend dropped her back off at the Raleigh residence where she was taken into custody.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025

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