How to Use tenured in a Sentence

tenured

adjective
  • More tenured workers did even better, some earning three years of wages.
    — Pete Stavros, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Not all faculty, whether tenured or not, are created equal in terms of costs.
    — Jeffrey J. Selingo, Washington Post, 26 June 2017
  • Langford, who played 105 games over 2½ seasons, was the most tenured.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
  • Ironically, one-year starter Isaac Rex was the most tenured of the group.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • Rob Havenstein, the tenured right tackle, will play on the final year of his contract.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • But Knorr, who will play at Towson next year, was the most tenured and consistent of that group.
    — Tim Schwartz, Howard County Times, 13 June 2018
  • The tenured prof claims his reassignment violates free speech and seeks reinstatement and damages.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 20 Nov. 2025
  • In the 150-year history of the UC system, the regents have fired just eight tenured professors.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 May 2018
  • The position came with tenured status, which offered some additional job security.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Three years after the book was published, Columbia offered Mahmood a tenured professorship.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • These temporary ecosystems enable emerging talent to gain exposure to legacy expertise, while tenured employees observe and adopt emerging practices.
    — Britton Bloch, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Hundreds of unionized non-tenured faculty at New York University officially went on strike after the deadline for a deal passed on Monday.
    — Dave Carlin, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • While enterprises must actively recruit digital-native talent equipped to build native agentic workflows, completely replacing tenured staff is an operational misstep.
    — Barney Krishnan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Professor Justin McDaniel, the tenured chair of the religious-studies department at the University of Pennsylvania, has found a way to make his students read again.
    — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
  • In the program’s first six months, which began in March, 75 devices were purchased — 60 of which were given to tenured staff, according to the Sheriff’s Office report given to the Board of Supervisors.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • McAfee, English and indigenous studies Professor Emilio Del Valle-Escalante and economics Professor Caroline Fohlin all remain tenured faculty members and none were convicted of any charges.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Philosophy Professor Noelle McAfee, English and indigenous studies Professor Emilio Del Valle-Escalante and economics Professor Caroline Fohlin all remain tenured faculty members and none were convicted of any charges.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026

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