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• n  the official who holds an office
• s  lying or leaning on something else
  an incumbent geological formation
• s  necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
  it is incumbent on them to pay their own debts
• s  currently holding an office
  the incumbent governor

• In Kentucky and Virginia, both red state redoubts, incumbent Republicans held off tough challenges.
• State Senator Jon Tester was ahead, but just barely, of incumbent Republican Conrad Burns in Montana.
• Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election.

• officeholder

News & Articles

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• Five elected to Bethany's council includes newcomer
  BETHANY - Four incumbent Bethany Council members will be joined by one new member following the town's election Tuesda.
  June 12, 2013 - Weirton Daily Times
• LAWRENCE: Five vie for 4 seats on school board
  Two incumbent school board members and three newcomers will be vying to fill four seats on the Lawrence Township Board of Education in the Nov. 5 general election — the first year that voters will choose school board members in November.
  June 12, 2013 - The Lawrence Ledger
• Introductory statements from a Lynnwood Council incumbent and two challengers
  Appointed incumbent Lynnwood City Councilman M. Christopher Boyer faces two challengers in the Aug. 6 primary -- James Robert Deal and Michael Moore....
  June 11, 2013 - Everett Herald

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in USA Today
  Of course, Saddam Hussein ought to have been hanged for destroying several Shiite villages,Putin said in Moscow. "And the incumbent Georgian leaders who razed ten Ossetian villages at once, who ran elderly people and children with tanks,...
• Henry Louis Gates in Washington Post
  It is "incumbent upon Sergeant Crowley and me to utilize the great opportunity that fate has given us to foster greater sympathy among the American public for the daily perils of policing on the one hand, and for the genuine fears of racial...