commissioner

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Recent Examples of commissioner As Congress was preparing to cut Medicaid to historic levels, the state’s social services commissioner had a message: don’t mischaracterize Medicaid. Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2025 Once Duke product Cooper Flagg is taken off the board with the No. 1 overall pick by the Dallas Mavericks and shakes the hand of NBA commissioner Adam Silver at Barclays Center, questions about who will be around for the Charlotte Hornets to select at No. 4 should begin percolating. Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2025 On Wednesday night in New York, NBA commissioner Adam Silver will announce the Dallas Mavericks select Flagg with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 2025 And what that trail shows is the pro-Home Rule campaign had just five donors contribute more than $110K; three developer/business entities from outside Douglas County, and the spouses of a developer/commissioner. Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for commissioner
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Noun
  • But a longstanding argument against any updates to the sculpture, said Dan Wenk, the former superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, is that the piece of art is already finished, visually and rhetorically.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 5 July 2025
  • Adam Friday resigned as acting superintendent for the sanitation department, effective June 3, two weeks after the incident with Street Commissioner Brandon Downey, town records show.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Each of the suites feels more like a studio apartment by design and features bespoke Mexican artifacts, vintage objects, and furnishings selected by the brand’s design director, Roberto Ayala.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 13 July 2025
  • Jones previously held the position of men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton, as well as Dior and Fendi.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Climate United Fund and other nonprofits in March sued the Environmental Protection Agency, its administrator Lee Zeldin and Citibank, which held the program’s money.
    Michael Phillis, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • The closure of Jackson South’s labor and delivery unit is the latest in South Florida and comes at a time when many hospitals across the country have closed their maternity wards, with administrators often citing costs and staffing issues.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • The Eero Plus subscription is expensive ($10 per month or $100 per year) but includes comprehensive parental controls, advanced security, ad blocking, and even a password manager and VPN service.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 10 July 2025
  • Instead of trying to memorize dozens of complex passwords, a password manager securely stores them for you and automatically fills them in when needed.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • More companies are turning to interim executives to observe how a leader handles the job under real conditions before committing to a long-term hire.
    Rhett Power, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2025
  • The Departed director earned his first Emmy nomination in 1995, earning a nod for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Cultural Programming for executive producing the Eric Clapton documentary film Nothing but the Blues.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Gartner was Rodriguez-Kennedy’s immediate supervisor.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • Later in the video, Bennett speaks to a supervisor outside the police station.
    Daniel McGowan, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Videos from riders have showed traffic problems and driving issues, drawing the attention of federal highway safety regulators.
    Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 11 July 2025
  • Interpretable models, while perhaps performing slightly worse in the short term, can let AI developers and regulators alike understand model shortcomings and where data or model improvement efforts are needed.
    Rishabh Sambare, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The following day, former Novatek deputy chairman Sergey Protosenya, 55, his wife Natalya, 53, and 18-year-old daughter, Maria, were found dead at their Spanish mansion.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • The chairman holds regular press conferences after the Federal Reserve Board of Governors meetings eight times a year, immediately followed by question-and-answer sessions with a select group of beat reporters who closely follow the bank and economic matters.
    James B. Nelson, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025

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“Commissioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commissioner. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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