How to Use appointee in a Sentence
appointee
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The appointee will serve out the rest of Lieberman's two-year term.
—Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
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Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, appeared to scoff at the claim.
—Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
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Per state law, the school board votes on an appointee to fill the opening until the end of the board term.
—Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Oct. 2021
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Ann Hsu, Breed’s third appointee, was in third with nearly 19% of the vote.
—Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2022
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Ahead of the meeting, one of Kennedy’s new appointees stepped down from the panel.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 25 June 2025
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The board plans to announce the appointee at its Oct. 5 meeting.
—Brayden Garcia, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2021
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Biden’s first appointee to the court was Koh, the judge Obama had tried to appoint to Pregerson’s seat.
—Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
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Days after firing eight Joe Biden-era appointees from the board of the U.S.
—Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
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The appointee would have to run for election in 2022 to retain the council seat.
—Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2021
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Since then, the new appointees have taken steps to void those agreements.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
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Glazier is the first Garcetti appointee on the fire commission not to be retained.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
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Wray, who was already leading the FBI at the time, is also a Trump appointee.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
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Califf, a Biden appointee, will step down when Trump takes office.
—Erika Edwards, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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The panel was made up of two Obama appointees and a George W. Bush appointee.
—Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
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Yet Leichty also is a Trump appointee, as were two of the three appeals court judges.
—Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2021
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The ruling was 2 to 1; both judges in the majority are Trump appointees.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
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The last school board seat was vacant at the time of the vote but has since been filled by appointee Felicia Stolusky.
—Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2022
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All three are DeSantis appointees, as are Muñiz and Couriel.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
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Two of the five Supreme Court justices who ruled against the state were Republican appointees.
—Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2023
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The justices reorient to the latest appointee and, in turn, to each other.
—Melissa MacAya, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
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The strategy could keep Prehn, an appointee of former Gov. Scott Walker, on the board for years.
—Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2021
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That means Johnson — a Democratic appointee — will be out of a job soon.
—Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
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Wesson and his appointee were just two among many who had influence over the line-drawing process, the court wrote.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022
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Portela was a Burke-era appointee to the case, having been put on the investigation in 2013.
—Gus Garcia-Roberts, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
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The appointee will finish out the term of board President Larry Loschen.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
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As luck would have it, the panel included two Trump appointees.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 15 May 2024
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DeWine’s other appointee, Richard Chernesky, was not sworn in at the meeting due to an illness.
—cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
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Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, a Trump appointee, was having none of it.
—CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
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Albert was the second Bowser appointee to the board to depart under duress.
—Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
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At the time it was composed entirely of de Blasio appointees, a formula Mamdani hopes to replicate if elected.
—Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
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