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emerita
[ ih-mer-i-tuh ]
adjective
- (of a woman) retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty, but retaining the title of one's office or position:
Kate Johnson, Professor Emerita of Music.
noun
- a woman with such status.
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Example Sentences
Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., proposed a bill to axe Musk’s lucrative federal contracts at SpaceX earlier this week, while Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi filed legislation to protect taxpayer data from Musk’s reach.
She’s a professor emerita of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley, and she studies the aftermath of fires.
“Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals,” her spokesperson Ian Krager wrote in a statement.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is facing a powerful source of opposition in her bid to lead Democrats on the House's Oversight Committee: House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, with whom she has had a complicated relationship and who is now urging colleagues to back Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., for the top spot instead.
She chose choreographer Robert Battle as her successor and served as the company’s artistic director emerita until her death.
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