How to Use presidency in a Sentence

presidency

noun
  • But the prospect of a lame-duck presidency looms large.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 10 June 2024
  • The White House wants to roll back tax cuts passed in 2017 during the Trump presidency.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • In 2010, Yanukovych won the presidency promising to sign the accords.
    Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • With the presidency comes the power to set the agenda for the G20 summit in November.
    Chuck Collins, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • By the end of the Trump presidency, 56 claims made by Trump had qualified.
    Fox News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The summit is the first Biden has held during his presidency at the storied Camp David.
    Aamer Madhani and Darlene Superville, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • With The Atlantic takes stock of the Biden presidency so far and examines the challenges ahead.
    The Editors, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In the early days of Trump’s presidency she and her friends were fueled by the same sense of outrage and mission.
    Sarah Ellison and Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The most convincing case against Biden’s presidency is the one Democrats themselves have made for it.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
  • That means to win the presidency, Harris and Trump need to pick up as many swing states as possible.
    Andrew Prokop, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Next year the presidency will pass to Brazil, but thanks to its tech leadership, India will still be at the center stage.
    Emilien Coquard, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Biden issued the first veto of his presidency on the measure.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 4 Apr. 2023
  • If Donald Trump wins the presidency, the reservation plan could well be scrapped.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Republicans need to win 13 of the seats that are up this year or 12 seats and the presidency in order to claim the majority.
    CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But Inkatha won only 10 percent of the votes, and his hope for the presidency evaporated.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But Biden managed to preserve the accomplishments of his presidency thus far from the GOP’s knives.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • Scott in recent weeks endorsed Trump for the presidency.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • That would be a huge departure from the positions taken by most Democrats in the opening days and months of Mr. Biden’s presidency.
    Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The president issued a veto on that measure last week — the first of his presidency.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The firm said a Trump presidency is positive for the defense sector.
    Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 16 July 2024
  • Trump went on to prevail elsewhere, clinch the GOP nomination, and win the presidency.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Nauta would have worked closely with Trump in the White House and traveled with him, and continued to work for Trump after his presidency.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 June 2023
  • His reward: eight years as Bill Clinton’s vice president—and then in 2000 a hanging chad away from the presidency.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Still, Harris' last-minute campaign for the presidency is trying to find ways to make up ground with Latino voters.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2024
  • To state the obvious, the Electoral College decides the presidency, and not the popular vote.
    Jack Schlossberg, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2024
  • And dread at what might befall the United States and Israel during the remainder of this presidency.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 May 2024
  • The share belonging to the presidency has increased even faster since Tshisekedi’s rule, Stearns noted.
    Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Trump and his allies have suggested Bragg's probe is aimed at derailing his bid for the presidency in 2024.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Bill Gates also has confidence in the direction of America’s climate action, but worries about the pace and the message a second Trump presidency would send to the rest of the world.
    Bill Weir, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The swing voters who will decide the election next week shouldn’t let Trump’s pandering promises distract them from the high costs that giving him a second presidency would impose.
    Ben Ritz, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

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