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tenure as in: during her tenure
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During her tenure as principal, the school saw significant improvements in test scores.
tenure = time period during which a position was held
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Her tenure at the company was marked by innovation and strong leadership.
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It is a bear skull, the remains of a grizzly shot by someone who visited the bus years before McCandless's tenure. (source)tenure = time spent in a place
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He said that he would make this camp just as Omori had been under his tenure. (source)tenure = time period spent in a place
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Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having only known each other for four years; but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time. (source)tenure = feeling of duration (used figuratively)
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Although he'd barely noticed her during her tenure, he decreed that Miss Violence and her lax, musty, rose-tinted ways must be scrubbed away. (source)tenure = time period spent in a place
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It became so bad that, by the end of my tenure, another employee and I made a game of it: We'd set a timer when he went to the bathroom and shout the major milestones through the warehouse—"Thirty-five minutes!" (source)
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After Pearson's long tenure as D.A., Chapman's election represented something of a new era. (source)tenure = time period during which a position was held
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This would be her first big trial as a superior court judge, the one that set a tone for the rest of her tenure on the bench. (source)
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Still, Pearson had to be more mindful of the concerns of black residents than at the beginning of his career—even if that mindfulness didn't translate into any substantive changes during his tenure. (source)tenure = time period spent in a place
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tenure as in: she was granted tenure
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After publishing her second influential book, the professor was granted tenure, ensuring her job security at the university.
tenure = the right to permanent employment
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Tenure encourages academic freedom by protecting professors from being fired without a strong reason.
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I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. (source)tenured = having been granted the right to keep a job as long as desired
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Dr. Singh is still looking for tenure. (source)tenure = the right to keep a job as long as desired
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But he also knew that every eye in the Connecticut Valley was on him-maybe even in the whole Northeast-and that he was up for tenure at Sterling. (source)tenure = the right to keep a job as long as desired
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Even as a tenured professor who could afford something better, I lived in a $450-a-month attic apartment with a fire-escape walkup. (source)tenured = successful (having been granted the right to keep a job as long as desired)
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"I have read Gilbert's first section, of feuds, this evening but I am not a master of it," he recorded October 5, referring to Sir Geoffrey Gilbert's Treatise of Feudal Tenures.† (source)
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He had that edge of the untenured, too eager, too many handouts, too many please feel frees on his syllabus, a home number as well as an office number.† (source)untenured = without a future job guaranteestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untenured means not and reverses the meaning of tenured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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What a pulse-quickening idea to the nontenured! (source)nontenured = employment without a guarantee of permanencestandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nontenured means not and reverses the meaning of tenured. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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This had become a job with lifetime tenure. (source)tenure = right to keep a job as long as desired
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Though he is now a tenured full professor, he stops wearing jackets and ties to the university. (source)tenured = having been granted the right to keep a job as long as desired
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Translated two leaves more of Justinian ...and am now reading over again Gilbert's section of feudal tenures," he wrote the day following, October 6.† (source)
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His very first class with tenure, due to a shortage of space, was in a tower. (source)
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Every stratum of the Brown society is represented here-from godlike tenured don to midlevel administrators, assistant and associate profs, grad students and lowly undergraduates. (source)
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