governor

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Recent Examples of governor In the meetings, Nuñez cast herself as a homegrown success story who rose from a summer job at the registrar’s office to the governor’s second-in-command — and now hopes to lead her alma mater full time. Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025 And that big bill, governor Wyc Grousbeck told Boston radio station WEEI in March, isn’t even the reason the Cs want to get under. David Aldridge, New York Times, 22 May 2025 The governor's office criticized the Council of American Islamic Relations in a statement and accused the interfaith group of being linked to terrorism. Caroline Love, NPR, 22 May 2025 Aditya Mittal will likely be the second-largest stakeholder of the 18-time NBA champions and potentially be the alternate governor in the future, according to multiple people familiar with the details. Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for governor
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Noun
  • The initial feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, reducing delays, lowering operational costs, and significantly improving job satisfaction among both clinicians and administrators.
    Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Undercover journalists caught an administrator at UNC bragging about pushing DEI despite it being banned.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • As a Cubs executive, Banner shared his insights with president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer before the club made the Javier Báez deal at the 2021 trade deadline.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 29 May 2025
  • Analysts attributed Nissan's troubles to factors including an aging line-up, a lack of hybrid models in the U.S. and excessive focus on increasing output under former top executive Carlos Ghosn whose near two-decade year tenure ended in 2018.
    Daniel Leussink, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Melvin Morris, an African American soldier, retrieved under fire at Chi Lang, Vietnam, the body of another team commander on Sept. 17, 1969.
    Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2025
  • Schuster, a 17-year veteran, has been the department’s commander since 2020.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • For Alexa Abitbol, director of the high jewelry workshops, the new collection reflects the expertise of the jeweler’s craftspeople, who spent nearly 100,000 hours overall on the collection.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 26 May 2025
  • Jake Wood was executive director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, what had been a troubled effort to get more aid into Gaza in a way that would be acceptable to Israel, which has sought to tightly control all aid deliveries.
    WAFAA SHURAFA, Arkansas Online, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • An online resume under Suliman’s name says he was employed by a Denver-area healthcare company working in accounting and inventory control, with prior employers listed as companies in Egypt.
    Colleen Slevin, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
  • My background is working for large employers, and most aren’t hiring.
    Robin Ryan, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Child star Jackie Cooper Jr. (Navy), actors Charles During (Army), Lee Marvin (Marines), Audie Murphy (Army), Maureen O'Hara (whose husband was an Air Force general), and Arctic explorer Robert Byrd (Navy) are also in Arlington.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 May 2025
  • Unlike other French army officers who wore their bicornes front to back, the general famously sported en bataille (with the wings parallel to his shoulder).
    George Nelson for ArtNews, Robb Report, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Channel 4’s content chief Ian Katz admitted to his team at the end of April that his own future was uncertain.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 June 2025
  • Gary Oldman plays the acerbic Jackson Lamb, the odoriferous chief of Slough House where MI5 agents who just can’t cut it – or who are being punished for one reason or another – are sent.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • The Eagle Mountain-Saginaw school district announced that Wilson was hired to be the next principal at Boswell High School after the current principal, Vaughn Flagler, was hired as assistant superintendent for human resources in the Anna school district.
    Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2025
  • While working as the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office’s assistant deputy superintendent of jail operations, Brady ordered two sheriff’s office maintenance workers to do a variety of jobs at his home, prosecutors said.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025

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