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US
/ˌpɹɛzəˈdɛnʃəɫ/
]
[ UK /pɹˌɛzɪdˈɛnʃəl/ ]
[ UK /pɹˌɛzɪdˈɛnʃəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to a president or presidency
presidential aides
presidential veto -
befitting a president
criticized the candidate for not looking presidential
How To Use presidential In A Sentence
- The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
- You know, a couple of weeks ago, I was charged with what they call a presidential decision, and that's picking a running mate. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Campaign Holds Rally in Bartlett, Tennessee - August 18, 2000
- John Kerry of Massachusetts will accept the party's presidential nomination.
- It highlights key facets of presidential policies and priorities, difficulties and conflicts, while charting the developing nature of the office.
- This scandal is bound to tell against him in the coming presidential election.
- But the president claims he abandoned this effort when told that it would require a presidential decree.
- The parliament will elect a president and two vice presidents, who will form a presidential council.
- In the Whispering Gallery at the presidential library and museum, Aidan was blown away by political cartoons of the day that criticized Lincoln for his stance on slavery.
- He was only the second Catholic to receive the presidential nomination.
- Herein resided the stem-winding, therapeutic logic of the year-long national "conversation on race"; the periodic presidential apologies for world-historic wrongs which were usually strategic evasions of actual legislative responsibility; and the fussy feel-good conferences on teen violence and the media. The Feel Good Presidency