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Example sentences for: incumbent

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David Beasley should win re-election, and Republican Senate candidate Bob Inglis should defeat incumbent Sen.
On the same grounds, it is incumbent on editors to engage as reviewers of dictionaries lexicographers who are knowledgeable about the genre, not amateurs who occasionally look up one word to see how it is spelt or another to find out what it means.
This is the biggest obstacle facing Bush: He is challenging the incumbent vice president in a time of peace and prosperity, and the congressional GOP has not made a persuasive case either that the prosperity is false or that it is true because of Republican efforts in Washington.
This technique was in widespread use until 1948, when the major national polls based on this technique all predicted that Republican Thomas E. Dewey would defeat incumbent Democrat Harry S. Truman.
Incumbent commentators noted that this will encourage licensees to "wait out" incumbents and increase the likelihood that incumbents would have to assume the costs of their own relocation.