Explore Incumbent through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like necessary or current. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Incumbent meaning
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
- Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.
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Using Incumbent
- The main meaning on this page is: Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else. | Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else. | Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.
- Useful related words include: superjacent, necessary, current, officeholder.
- Possible Dutch translations are: rusten op, afhangen van.
- In the example corpus, incumbent often appears in combinations such as: the incumbent, incumbent president, an incumbent.
Example sentences (20)
Iran has adopted the separation of powers among the servants of the Supreme Leader, having three typical division of branches: Executive (incumbent: Hassan Rouhani ), Legislature (incumbent: Ali Larijani ), and the Judiciary (incumbent: Sadeq Larijani ).
During presidential election years when there is no incumbent, as in 2008 and 2016, potential candidates’ calculations don’t have to include incumbent popularity.
Incumbent State Senator Adam Ebbin (D-39) and incumbent Delegates Alfonso Lopez (D-3), Charniele Herring (D-4) and Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (D-5) all won easily, with Herring and Bennett-Parker running unopposed.
Warner went on to suggest Morrisey used to be more likely to embrace debating opportunities, such as in his first run for Attorney General against incumbent Democrat Darrell McGraw and in his 2018 U.S. Senate run against incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin.
It comes as the New Democrats have already declared over 20 incumbent and non-incumbent candidates around the province.
One thing that I liked was whether stock market returns 12 months before an election where there was a sitting president running an incumbent president running, did incumbent presidents, were they more likely to be elected?
Gallegos, who is giving up his state House seat to challenge Fulfer, has raised the incumbent’s 2019 vote in favor of a Democratic-backed $7 billion budget bill in his attempt to oust the incumbent.
In the past, it’s common to refer to the incumbent president at a Veep debate, with the incumbent’s running mate “playing the attack dog role,” according to Azari.
The PLP made a strong showing in Southampton, picking up two more seats, with Jason Wade defeating the incumbent Leah Scott, who was the OBA’s Deputy Leader, while Crystal Caesar defeated the incumbent Ben Smith.
On Atiku and Buhari he said, “If you compare the two of them, with what I know and all I have written about the incumbent which they have decided to cover up, Atiku is better than the incumbent by far.
Candidate Q & A: 6th Congressional District Republican Incumbent Peter RoskamThe battle between incumbent Peter roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten is one of the hottest races not just in Illinois, but across the country.
Incumbent Democrat Adam Smith is being challenged by newcomer and former Bernie Sanders volunteer Sarah Smith, who is running to the incumbent’s left.
Okupe, in a statement on Saturday, said since it would be difficult to defeat an incumbent, the CNM was created as a broad platform with a view to presenting a candidate who would contest against Buhari with the hope of defeating the incumbent President.
About four people will be fighting for the Kabale District woman MP seat— the incumbent Catherine Ndamira (Catholic), Enid Origumisiriza (Anglican), Grace Ankunda Bekunda (Anglican) & Immaculate Kaggwa (Catholic).
According to him, the incumbent governor refused to build schools, and healthcare facilities, and generate electricity for the people of the State in his eight years in office.
After months of speculation, Morris County Commissioner Tom Mastrangelo formally kicked off his campaign for State Senate today, challenging incumbent State Sen. Joe Pennacchio (R-Montville) for the Republican nomination in the 26th legislative district.
After the CDU’s election success, SPD incumbent Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said she would no longer seek to continue leading her ruling coalition, which retained a majority—relegating the SPD to being junior partners of the CDU.
After the incumbent government’s demonetization policy came into full force, Tinubu publicly complained about the resultant economic harm.
Alvarado unseated incumbent Democrat R.J. Palmer to win his Senate seat in 2014.
And Fithian and Rivkin also wished well to Michael O'Leary the incumbent president and CEO of the theater owners' association.
Common combinations with incumbent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the incumbent 67×
- incumbent president 19×
- an incumbent 13×
- incumbent and 9×
- incumbent government 6×
- incumbent upon 6×
- defeated incumbent 6×
- and incumbent 5×
- incumbent democrat 5×
- republican incumbent 5×