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Serving as a state’s top executive provides potential women presidential contenders with executive skills and experience, statewide and national recognition and substantive leadership records that can match voter expectations for the country’s commander in chief.
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Kelly Dittmar, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
The 34-year-old fighter sent a post on X, in response to a post from President Donald Trump, urging the commander in chief not to involve the U.S. in the ongoing conflict.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025
Governors are the commanders in chief of their National Guard and the federal government activating them in their own borders without consulting or working with a state's governor is ineffective and dangerous.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
The dinner for top purchasers of the $TRUMP meme coin is a vivid example of that, critics said, with 220 top investors getting prized time with the commander in chief.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 24 May 2025
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Kelly Dittmar, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
The 34-year-old fighter sent a post on X, in response to a post from President Donald Trump, urging the commander in chief not to involve the U.S. in the ongoing conflict.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025
Governors are the commanders in chief of their National Guard and the federal government activating them in their own borders without consulting or working with a state's governor is ineffective and dangerous.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
The dinner for top purchasers of the $TRUMP meme coin is a vivid example of that, critics said, with 220 top investors getting prized time with the commander in chief.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 24 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for commander in chief
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“Commander in chief.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commander%20in%20chief. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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