During her mayoralty, the mayor greatly improved the city.
He won the mayoralty in the last two elections.
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Apocalyptic fires had been ravaging Los Angeles for more than 24 hours when Mayor Karen Bass stepped off a plane and into a now-viral encounter that may come to define her mayoralty.—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025 The mayor has focused on two themes to get his mayoralty back on track: public safety and affordability.—Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025 But his mayoralty has been flexible and data-driven, and by most metrics very successful.—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024 Eastwood, of course, never achieved office higher than the mayoralty of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., but the organizing principle remains the same: what makes a celebrity, to Trump, is charisma, which can’t be taught.—Ramin Setoodeh, Washington Post, 17 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for mayoralty
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Etymology
Middle English mairaltee, from Anglo-French mairalté, from maire
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