Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hangings or decoration for a wall, especially paper-hangings. Also
tentorium .
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Examples
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I'm sure the earnest darling was repeating it verbatim (and leaving a lot out) because it was familiar b.s. But, dear "tenture" thread people, I realized that this gives me more * me* time!
Wired Campus 2010
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They have done so much during their WH tenture that the supers should be very scared about what is going to come out on them, once they are no longer under the protection of running primaries.
Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates 2009
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The great paradox of the "class autobiography" is that the only ones with the luxury of publicly sharing their pasts are those with the privilage of job tenture -- a perk enjoyed by elites like Dr. Kaplan -- or those with boring and innocuous pasts.
My Short Class Autobiography, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Odd that you single out research professor, as the academic institution I used to work for was making a big thing in creating research professors and super-research professors that would be granted tenture automatically, in some cases, when they were super-duper-stars.
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Odd that you single out research professor, as the academic institution I used to work for was making a big thing in creating research professors and super-research professors that would be granted tenture automatically, in some cases, when they were super-duper-stars.
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I also hadn't heard, until I read the new call, that it was a renewable, non-tenture-track position.
Philocrites: Harvard update on Emerson UUA professorship. 2007
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A bit of digging around by a trustworthy source turned up an important caveat to those figures: these numbers cover both tenture-track and non-tenure track positions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Gender and Law Teaching Jobs: 2004
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Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenture; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve.
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Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenture; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve.
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The book sometimes lists non-tenure-track faculty as well as tenture-track and tenure faculty, however.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Gender and Law Teaching Jobs: 2004
grant_barrett commented on the word tenture
A frequent misspelling of tenure.
November 7, 2009