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tenures

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plural of tenure

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a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position during his tenure as president the college experienced steady growth

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Recent Examples of tenures CalPERS pairs the long tenures with what Moulds calls one of the most robust data warehouses in the country to understand historical health care costs. — Bob Herman, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026 Six years ago, fresh from successful tenures on the City Council and the state Assembly, and with a double-digit mayoral win under his belt, Gloria seemed likely to break the mayoral curse. — Carl Luna, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 U’Ren cut his teeth with the Golden State Warriors and both of the Sparks’ interim GMs only joined the WNBA in 2026 after long NBA tenures, and moving an expiring contract is the type of deal that frequently gets done on the men’s side. — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Longest tenures in Class 7A North Cobb’s Shane Queen continues to lead the highest classification in consecutive seasons with the same school, at 21. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026 In the decades since, presidents have used Camp David to hold summits with foreign dignitaries and strategize during contentious moments of their tenures in the White House. — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026 DeBoer, Heupel, and Venables have all been solid to very good throughout most of their tenures at their respective schools. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026 By 2030, the question facing any CEO will not be how to rebuild loyalty to the institution, but how to become the organization people actively choose to join, leave and rejoin across a career measured in decades, rather than tenures. — Kate Vitasek, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The billionaire businessman has spent over five decades shaping the entertainment industry during his tenures at ABC, Fox, and Paramount. — Erianne Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2026

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The case attracted attention in part because of a flood of social media posts that amplified the killing in racial terms.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
His existing terms, signed in August 2024, run until 2027, with the option of an additional 12 months.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

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Puhm served as lead AI artist on Free Leonard Peltier, a Sundance 2025 documentary, and had stints as a writer at Leonine Studios’ Wiedemann & Berg TV and Red Bull Media’s Terra Mater Studios.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026
Related Stories The disclosure landed midway through the band’s Arirang World Tour, which launched in South Korea in April and reunited all seven members for the first time in years following their individual stints in the military.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026

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Carl Schuster, who served three tours on the Lincoln’s sister ship, the USS Nimitz, in the late 1970s and 1980s, said life aboard can be isolating, especially for enlisted crew who work deep inside the 100,000-ton carriers.

— Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Nearly three-quarters of its humanoid revenue came from research and education in the first nine months of 2025, while corporate tours made up more than half of its still-small industrial business, a company filing showed.

— Elaine Yu,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026

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