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as in commandants
one in official command especially of a military force or base
a surrender of the fort by the commander without a single shot having been fired
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as in captains
a person in overall command of a ship
the intrepid commander of the HMS Surprise
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Recent Examples of commanders
At the multi-day NFL Combine-style event, hopeful commanders had to pass fitness and body fat testing before undergoing psychological evaluation.
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Davis Winkie, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Unlike expensive satellites or large drones such as the Global Hawk, Skydweller offers commanders a cheaper option for persistent monitoring.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Incident commanders described the fire as spreading west at a critical rate.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Zelenskyy said on Monday that Kyiv intends to expand such attacks, which Ukrainian officials and commanders have framed as a means to undermine Moscow's war effort and force the Kremlin into genuine negotiations.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2025
Norway's military still has a direct line to Russia's commanders, mostly to resolve issues about fisheries and other resources, but also to avert any potential armed crises at sea between the neighbors, Lage said.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Organizations need to bake drills into calendars, keep dashboards live, rotate incident commanders and tie executive compensation to measurable outcomes such as time to detect and time to recover.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
That information enables commanders to launch defensive or offensive strikes in seconds, whether intercepting an incoming cruise missile, engaging hostile aircraft, or directing Tomahawk missiles at land targets hundreds of miles away.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Davis Winkie, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Unlike expensive satellites or large drones such as the Global Hawk, Skydweller offers commanders a cheaper option for persistent monitoring.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Incident commanders described the fire as spreading west at a critical rate.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Zelenskyy said on Monday that Kyiv intends to expand such attacks, which Ukrainian officials and commanders have framed as a means to undermine Moscow's war effort and force the Kremlin into genuine negotiations.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2025
Norway's military still has a direct line to Russia's commanders, mostly to resolve issues about fisheries and other resources, but also to avert any potential armed crises at sea between the neighbors, Lage said.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Organizations need to bake drills into calendars, keep dashboards live, rotate incident commanders and tie executive compensation to measurable outcomes such as time to detect and time to recover.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
That information enables commanders to launch defensive or offensive strikes in seconds, whether intercepting an incoming cruise missile, engaging hostile aircraft, or directing Tomahawk missiles at land targets hundreds of miles away.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commanders
Noun
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Young is one of the Panthers’ three permanent captains this season and the only one on offense.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Sep. 2025
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Vera-Tucker was voted as one of the Jets’ six team captains at the end of August for the first time in his career.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Bamboo basket boats swirl through the Bay Mau nipa palm forest—their skippers casting nets in the shade of swaying fronds.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Plants bloom throughout most of the year, attracting a diversity of skippers and butterflies, including Queens and the endangered Miami blue butterfly.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
19 Aug. 2025
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Graff tugs the reader from the earliest experiments in radiation to the young pilots who made an ashy hole of Nagasaki.—
Book Marks
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Certainly, new ideas were tossed around and even some pilots kicked off.—
Nathan Furr,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Commanders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commanders. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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