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Recent Examples of governorship
Even if Reagan made a hard right politically during those years (ultimately winning the California governorship in 1966), the votive features of his faith continued to shape his public service.
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Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
Vice President Kamala Harris only carried the state by about 5.7 points in 2024, and Governor Youngkin won the governorship by nearly two points in 2021.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
That effort failed, but as one of the last acts of his first governorship, Brown signed a bill to increase payments to such workers by about $3 billion a year, angering employers who must provide coverage.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Three years after resigning the governorship in a cloud of scandal, Andrew M. Cuomo is making final preparations to run for mayor of New York City and could announce his candidacy as soon as this weekend, according to four people familiar with the planning.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
Vice President Kamala Harris only carried the state by about 5.7 points in 2024, and Governor Youngkin won the governorship by nearly two points in 2021.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
That effort failed, but as one of the last acts of his first governorship, Brown signed a bill to increase payments to such workers by about $3 billion a year, angering employers who must provide coverage.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Three years after resigning the governorship in a cloud of scandal, Andrew M. Cuomo is making final preparations to run for mayor of New York City and could announce his candidacy as soon as this weekend, according to four people familiar with the planning.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governorship
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Representatives of the property management company milled a block away holding drills.—
Liam Dillon,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
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Falcon Crest Golf Club in Kuna — along with its management company, Century Golf Partners — is weighing the facility’s transition from public to private.—
Amaia Gavica,
Idaho Statesman,
3 June 2025
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Under Sarkozy’s presidency, between 2007 and 2012, there was a huge surge in Qatari investment in French industry, Parisian real estate and much else.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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The appeal -- as well as the ongoing appeal of Trump's $83 million judgment in the E. Jean Carroll civil case and half-billion-dollar civil fraud case -- is proceeding on uncharted legal grounds as Trump wields the power of the presidency in his defense.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
30 May 2025
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Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, has also supported the use of vitamin A under the supervision of a physician to treat people with measles, creating concerns among health experts who have cautioned about the vitamin’s effectiveness.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The first was distilled in 1960 under the supervision of Suntory founder Shinjiro Torii, according to the brand (which alone makes this whisky stand out), and aged in Japanese mizunara oak barrels.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
28 May 2025
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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
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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
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The papacy essentially is a kingship, DeBernardo said.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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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
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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.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 June 2025
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Swift’s management of her career has been touted as a model to reduce the structural inefficiencies in music licensing and broadcasting, to promote equity sharing with record labels, and to give artists in general more control over their creative work.—
Time,
Time,
5 June 2025
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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
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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
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The interior ministry’s provisional assessment as of Sunday morning was that 559 people had been arrested, including 491 in Paris, which led to 320 people being placed in police custody, 254 of them in Paris.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
1 June 2025
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After the flight left, Murphy ordered the men stay in DHS custody while the department conducts a credible fear assessment.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
1 June 2025
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“Governorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governorship. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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