petty officer
noun
: a subordinate officer in the navy or coast guard appointed from among the enlisted men compare noncommissioned officer
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The soldiers were first hit by a grenade hurled through a sniper hole in the wall, and then an IED exploded outside the building, gravely injuring medic and sniper Elliott Miller (Cosmo Jarvis), to whom the movie is dedicated, and leading petty officer Joe Hildebrand, renamed Sam (Joseph Quinn).
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 12 Apr. 2025
The cast is like a roll call of Next-Gen Hollywood circa 2025: There’s Will Poulter (Midsommar, Death of a Unicorn), running point on the whole operation, and Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things, George Harrison in the upcoming Beatles’ biopics) as a petty officer keeping watch on the perimeter.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
The plaintiffs challenging the policy include an Army major who received a Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan, an Army captain who’d been invited to teach at West Point and a petty officer whose double mastectomy was abruptly canceled shortly before the surgeon was about to begin the procedure.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
That is a lot of dead fictional petty officers being found by that white rail fence.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 12 Apr. 2025
The cast is like a roll call of Next-Gen Hollywood circa 2025: There’s Will Poulter (Midsommar, Death of a Unicorn), running point on the whole operation, and Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things, George Harrison in the upcoming Beatles’ biopics) as a petty officer keeping watch on the perimeter.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
The plaintiffs challenging the policy include an Army major who received a Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan, an Army captain who’d been invited to teach at West Point and a petty officer whose double mastectomy was abruptly canceled shortly before the surgeon was about to begin the procedure.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
That is a lot of dead fictional petty officers being found by that white rail fence.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for petty officer
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“Petty officer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petty%20officer. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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