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appointees

noun

plural of appointee

as in nominees

one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty the announcement of the presidential appointees to the cabinet

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Recent Examples of appointees The second phase involves installing political appointees to run universities. — Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Trump installed himself as chairman of the Kennedy Center last year after removing its previous leadership and replacing board members with his own appointees. — Mariam Khan, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026 Brown and Washington are both mayoral appointees and members of Mayor Mike Johnston's cabinet. — Brian Maass, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026 The Missouri Supreme Court — dominated by Republican appointees — ruled the secretary of state erred in making the decision. — James A. Downs, The Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2026 Stopgap spending bill passes House The House voted yesterday to pass a stopgap government-funding bill that temporarily blocks the White House’s proposal to give political appointees more control over federal research grants. — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Sep. 2026 The board was previously made up of seven mayoral appointees. — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026 The agency was a pseudo-governmental commission with no legal authority, staffed by grossly unqualified appointees, including a teenage programmer known as Big Balls. — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026 The three liberals, all Democratic appointees, dissented in two separate opinions. — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

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Both nominees have attempted to portray themselves as the commonsense alternative to an extremist opponent whose agenda could set the state back decades.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
Contrast that with Toronto’s more democratic People’s Choice Award, which has awarded 16 future Best Picture nominees during that same time period.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

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French President Emanuel Macron delivered a briefing to the candidates running to succeed him so disturbing that even the far-right National Rally’s leaders emerged denouncing Russian hybrid attacks.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Descano, a former prosecutor for the Obama administration, took office in Fairfax in 2020 as part of a movement of leftist prosecutor candidates backed by megadonor George Soros.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026

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