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auditor

noun

Definition of 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 fallout of this fraud included several new state-level fiscal accountability reforms for all New York school districts, including stricter internal controls, mandatory board oversight and independent auditor requirements. — Kathryn Blackman, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026 An independent auditor will monitor and report on whether Meta is complying with the settlement's terms over a five-year period. — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026 Meta is also promising to do a better job of verifying users' ages and has agreed to report regularly to an independent auditor. — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026 Overall, experts say the changes are positive, so long as the company complies, and the independent auditor — another provision of the settlement — is able to do their job effectively. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for auditor

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The Islamabad district magistrate appointed a multiagency fact-finding committee with directions to submit a report within 24 hours.

— CBS News, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
The Islamabad district magistrate appointed a fact-finding committee and asked it to submit a report within 24 hours.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026

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Braking performance comes courtesy of Gale Speed calipers, a Kustom Tech master cylinder, and custom in-house caliper brackets.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
The Illusion Of 'Clean' Data Over the past decade, companies have poured enormous effort into data quality, governance frameworks, master data initiatives and cloud migrations.

— Kevin Campbell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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Casual comments that harm former colleagues and employers do not disappear when the following day’s newspapers are thrown in the bin, yet hang around forever to cause untold damage to all referees’ reputations.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
The new rules mandated that referees stop play for a ten-minute hydration break that allows players to drink fluids, change clothes, or shower in their locker room.

— Aaron Short, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of referee

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The motion to assign the case to a specific judge is expected to be heard before arguments begin on the sentence motion.

— Greg Smith, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026
Local 42’s attorneys had previously filed a motion asking a Jackson County judge to hold the city in contempt, arguing that officials had failed to carry out a previous judgment in the case from March that enforced the arbitrator’s decision.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026

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Although Louisiana’s top jurist tore apart the state’s case against Duncan, the 57-year-old West Monroe native still isn’t truly free.

— Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 31 Aug. 2026
Alongside Gyllenhaal and Ben Hania, the jurists include English composer Daniel Blumberg, Italian professor Francesco Casetti, French writer-director Xavier Giannoli, Afghan writer-director Shahrbanoo Sadat, and Hong Kong director Johnnie To.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2026

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