as in office
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization
the city desk of a prominent newspaper
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In 2017, manuscripts, personal letters and hundreds of other documents from founding father Alexander Hamilton’s desk sold for a total of $2.6 million at Sotheby’s in New York, according to the auction house.
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Jack Guy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Sitting glued to your laptop and monitor at your WFH desk all day will not do your physical or mental wellbeing any good.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
In the past seven elections, the direction of Wednesday’s S&P 500 move matched the direction of the index in the two weeks directly after the election, according to a trading desk note from the bank.
—Jesse Pound,samantha Subin, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
Upstairs in one diamond-trading building on a recent September afternoon, an engineer sat gazing at a golf-ball-size rock on his desk.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
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Jack Guy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Sitting glued to your laptop and monitor at your WFH desk all day will not do your physical or mental wellbeing any good.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
In the past seven elections, the direction of Wednesday’s S&P 500 move matched the direction of the index in the two weeks directly after the election, according to a trading desk note from the bank.
—Jesse Pound,samantha Subin, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
Upstairs in one diamond-trading building on a recent September afternoon, an engineer sat gazing at a golf-ball-size rock on his desk.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
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Though even back in August, an agent told The Real Deal that ahead of expectations of lower commissions, half of the brokers in his office had quit.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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In late May, the FBI searched Owens’ office at the Hinds County District Attorney’s Office under a warrant.Bracey Harris, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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But then hours later, the sheriff's department went back to the family's home near the North Carolina border, where Patterson was handcuffed, arrested, booked on suspicion of reckless conduct and forced to post $500 bail.David K. Li, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Although the exact dates of its arrival and discovery are unclear, the penny-sized bit of rock somehow found its way into a Purdue University biology department desk drawer, where faculty uncovered it in 1929.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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The condition of Bay Area roads varies widely by jurisdiction, according to a recent report by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the regional transportation agency for the nine counties.Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Following a review of available data, the agency determined that phenylephrine, when taken orally, does not actually work as a nasal decongestant.Bruce Gil, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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Lemire had been serving as Politico’s White House bureau chief and has risen to prominence in the Washington press corps as a regular on cable news shows.Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
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Tren de Aragua is still trying to find their identity, said Jason Savino, an assistant chief in the New York Police Department's detective bureau.Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Desk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desk. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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