commissioner

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Recent Examples of commissioner But for now, pending Antoni’s confirmation by the Senate, the jobs report is in the hands of the acting BLS commissioner, William Wiatrowski, a career Labor Department official. Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025 Phillips took on her new BBC role over the summer and is now effectively the most powerful commissioner in British broadcasting. The Deadline Team, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 That leaves 17 hours for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and staff. Jim Sergent, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025 Solomon Nesakumar, additional commissioner of police in Kolkata, told NPR that crowd control is always difficult and becomes even more challenging when people stop to take selfies or their close cousin, video reels to post on Instagram and other platforms. Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for commissioner
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Noun
  • The superintendent also reiterated that a person’s immigration status has no bearing on whether or not CPD officers respond to a 911 call.
    Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Carlos Castillo, superintendent of Fresno Unified School District, which has a large, predominantly Hispanic immigrant population.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mid-summer changes to United’s revolving credit facility indicated a switch in strategy, and there was a more aggressive approach in the market following a summit in Iceland between Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Rice steps up for statewide commemoration Eric George, a deputy athletic director at Rice University, started a conversation about doing something to recognize the flood victims.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For three decades, Mayes worked as an educator and administrator in the Little Rock School District, North Little Rock School District, Beebe School District and the Arkansas Department of Education-Special Education Unit, according to her news release.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The dispute began after the village's tax administrator and attorney Deepak Desai found that Daniels had not paid all of his municipal taxes, according to court documents.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Under-18s coach Marc Bridge-Wilkinson stepped down after a decade of service and joined League One outfit Huddersfield Town as assistant manager.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the struggles from Nola this season, Phillies manager Rob Thomson remains confident in his right-hander.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The idea for this new era is not for the Lewis family to manage the details of how the club is run every day, but to have the right experts in place, and back those executives to run it well for them.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • FlyHouse will provide private travel for the team’s executives, commercial partners, players and staff throughout the season.
    Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At times, the work was tedious and involved a team of experts including a supervisor from the Culture Ministry, engineers, patrimonial architects and many artisans.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Original music and lyrics are written and composed by Holden-Rea, with Sarah Bridge (Bridgerton) of 45RPM serving as music supervisor, Eoin Mallon (A Better Man) as vocal director and Osar winner John Warhurst (Bohemian Rhapsody) as executive music producer.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Federal safety regulators are investigating nearly 300,000 Chrysler minivans over reports of steering malfunctions that officials said could lead to a crash.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Ofwat, the industry regulator, has reportedly insisted that Anglian has not yet submitted detailed proposals for the work.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus chairman Bryan Strawser told the Washington Examiner that tens of thousands of AR-style rifles and accessories are already lawfully owned in Minnesota, and state-level bans on these items would likely not survive legal challenges.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In November, the Art Institute named Lefkofsky as its new board chairman, putting the tech billionaire in charge of overseeing the museum, the school and an ambitious plan to usher in an era of new development at the historic South Michigan Avenue campus.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025

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