auditor

as in magistrate
a person appointed by a court to prepare an account of financial matters in a civil case

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Recent Examples of auditor The report will be referred to the Office of State Ethics and the state auditors. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2025 The chief auditor for Broward schools should be fired, said one School Board member, who wrote a scathing evaluation. Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 7 June 2025 By the numbers Adult jails must log the arrivals and departures of minors and submit the logs to an auditor with the state, to comply with the federal standards. Rachel Baye, NPR, 5 June 2025 Claudia Russ Anderson, the former community bank group risk officer, was ordered Tuesday to pay $10 million; David Julian, former chief auditor, was ordered to pay $7 million; and Paul McLinko, former executive audit director, was ordered to pay $1.5 million. Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for auditor
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Noun
  • The bombs did not distinguish between evil magistrates and political prisoners, or the 18- to 20-year-old conscripts tasked with escorting them.
    Siamak Namazi, Time, 25 June 2025
  • Meer Deen, a union representative, testified during a May 14 magistrate hearing with union and city attorneys, according to a court transcript.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • The Skokie native works at Google and recently graduated from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management with a master’s degree in business administration, according to her campaign.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • Twelve percent have master’s degrees or higher, compared with 14% nationally.
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes, referees failed to call a foul, sparking fan outrage.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2025
  • New for some refs, too The NBA doesn’t announce referee assignments until game day, so it won’t be known until Sunday morning who the three-person crew is for Game 7.
    Tim Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Additional provisions passed in this year’s legislative session will mean judges’ home addresses won’t appear in public property tax records when requested.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 19 June 2025
  • After a jury found Simpson liable, a judge awarded the families of the victims $33.5 million in damages.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Among them is a new chief justice, Hugo Aguilar, who would become the country’s first top jurist of Indigenous origin since the legendary Benito Juárez, who also served as president, more than a century and a half ago.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
  • The president recognized a perfect nominee for the times: a brilliant jurist who represented the best of American virtues and exhibited no vices or controversial positions on judicial issues (as had Bork three years earlier).
    Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025

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“Auditor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auditor. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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