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
  • Now second in line to the presidency, but at what cost? REP.
    ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • None of it was nearly enough for Harris to clinch the presidency.
    Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Some Democrats have blamed their loss of the presidency on Biden not stepping out of the race earlier.
    Tara Suter, The Hill, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • As challenging as the past two years have been for the Biden presidency, the next phase may be even trickier.
    Tyler Pager, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • To win the presidency, a candidate must secure more than 50% of the total votes cast.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • This is what happened in 2016 when Clinton won the popular vote but not the presidency.
    Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
  • 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 presidency and the composition of the Supreme Court will remain critical to pro-life prospects.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The president issued a veto on that measure last week — the first of his presidency.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • McCarthy failed to reach the 218 votes needed to take over the position, which is second in line to the presidency after the vice president.
    Andrew J. Campastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 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
  • Under current law, the federal government would hit its borrowing limit sometime in the spring of 2025, during the first months of the second Trump presidency.
    Jonathan Karl, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024

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