How to Use incumbency in a Sentence

incumbency

noun

• Hundreds of new jobs were created during her incumbency.
• For all that has changed in the era of Trump, one thing hasn’t: the power of incumbency is huge.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2022
• The Trump campaign and RNC have more than just the power of the incumbency staffing, too.
  — CBS News, 22 Apr. 2020
• That's in no small part thanks to the power of incumbency.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
• Team Newsom doesn’t seem to want to take any chances on the current threat to incumbency.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
• Maybe one of the most powerful signs of incumbency is a lack of any challenger.
  — Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2021
• Daniel Gabler has enjoyed more than a year of incumbency since his appointment in the last week of 2018.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2020
• Will Spartz’s incumbency and late hundreds of thousands of dollars in self loans push her over the top?
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2024
• The issues of health care and the economy played big roles in Beshear's re-election — as did the power of incumbency.
  — Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• In a year when incumbency is in bad odor, Republicans will need lots of their folks to hold their noses and vote.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2018
• Despite Roberts’ flaws, the race was up in the air — a credit to Roberts’ incumbency advantage.
  — Charles T. Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
• With the advantage of the incumbency this time, that may work to her advantage.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2018
• Still, the challenger is up against the powerful forces of incumbency.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
• But to me the bigger power of incumbency is those other pieces.
  — Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• Since then, Lipinski has coasted on the strength of incumbency and the prestige of his last name.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Jan. 2018
• The congresswoman brought the power of incumbency with her to the race and the ability to point to her two terms in Washington D.C.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2024
• Newsom has been able to use the benefits of incumbency to prop up his campaign.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2021
• The taxi incumbents fought the changes to protect their incumbency.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Yarbrough also could make something of a claim to incumbency.
  — Hal Dardick, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• Whitmer awaits the winner with the advantage of incumbency and $14.7 million in cash on hand.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2022
• And in Senate elections, no-show voters are a threat to incumbency.
  — Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 13 May 2016
• Of course, the party in control of Congress always has incumbency on its side.
  — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• For Seck, the opposition now stands a better chance to clinch the presidency with the power of incumbency out of the way.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 5 July 2023
• Young placed fifth in the Democratic race despite his incumbency and sizable spending in the race.
  — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• Nobody should assume that the rules should flex to protect his incumbency.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
• That’s a testament to not just the power of incumbency but how one-sided in their makeup most districts are.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2020
• The UP’s incumbency, therefore, may not be an advantage for Mr Boakai.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• A lot of strategists for 2024 will be watching to see if DeWine expands on that with the advantage of incumbency—and a slightly Trumpier stride.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
• But with all the advantages of incumbency as well as plenty of local endorsements, Bush will not be easy to defeat.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• But Newbury believes that this inevitable incumbency effect has been compounded by a sense of apathy and defeatism in the sector.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024