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Recent Examples of adjutant Whereas until recently political elites had a degree of decision-making power, the war has made them into the executors of Putin’s will, mere adjutants to the generalissimo. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024 His first innovation, suggested by the director and Factory adjutant Paul Morrissey, was to add the German chanteuse Nico to the Velvets’ lineup. Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023 In postwar court documents he is referred to as Arājs’s adjutant. Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023 Born May 13, 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Gravel served in the US Army as an adjutant in the Communications Intelligence Service in Germany and a special agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps in France from 1951 to 1954, according to a biography on his website. Chandelis Duster, CNN, 27 June 2021 See All Example Sentences for adjutant
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Noun
  • Darrell Smith, assistant commissioner for school choice and parent empowerment, has said about 55% are in kindergarten through fifth grade, while 23% are in middle school and 22% are in high school.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2025
  • An invitation to visit a friend’s family farm in Kenya in 1956 led to an introduction with the archaeologist Louis Leakey, who hired Goodall as an assistant and secretary.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In December 2021, the Treasury Department issued more sanctions against Luna and Marroquin, alleging that the Bukele aides negotiated the secret agreement with the MS-13 gang.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The officials encouraged the report’s lead authors including Calley Means, a top aide of Kennedy’s, to take a different approach for the second report and to engage with farmers and others in the food industry, the lobbyists say.
    Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Merck’s shares jumped over 5%, amid an announcement that deputy CEO Kai Beckmann will take the reins currently held by CEO Belén Garijo.
    Tasmin Lockwood,Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This includes 30 people in Bogo City, a coastal city near to the epicentre of the earthquake with a population of 90,000, ABC News and the BBC reported, citing OCD deputy administrator Bernardo Alejandro.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • He and his apprentices host glass- blowing classes on Fridays and Saturdays (reservation required), when guests can make anything from a bowl to a tumbler to an ornament.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The house’s historical and architectural value comes from its original creators—husband and wife Sheng Pao Sheng and Shao Fang Sheng, both former apprentices of Wright.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Will food aid continue under SNAP and WIC?
    Terry Moseley, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In return, Israel would halt its offensive and withdraw from much of the territory, release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and allow an influx of humanitarian aid and eventual reconstruction.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Officer Jared Grieshaber, a spokesperson for San Diego’s Border Division office, said the team is made up of 10 to 12 officers and includes a lieutenant, who serves as the group’s leader, sergeants, patrol officers and K-9 units trained in drug detection and patrol.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Alabama’s upset is significant on its own, but consider how devastating a loss would have been if DeBoer had made Smart — Saban’s former top lieutenant — 2-6 against the Tide.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025

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