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commissaries

noun

plural of commissary

as in representatives

a person who acts or does business for another will serve as commissary of religious education for the whole diocese

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Recent Examples of commissaries Many adventures later, Portillo sold his business to private equity, his chain of thirty-eight restaurants and two commissaries valued at a cool billion. — John Lanchester, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities’ commissaries for items including tampons, coffee and soup. — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 In 2025, the Pentagon explored privatizing commissaries, soliciting interest from commercial retailers and investment firms to take over operations at 178 domestic locations. — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026 What started as a small orchard grew into Crown Orchard Company, a thriving wholesale business that now supplies fruit to grocery stores and military commissaries across the East Coast. — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Call your federal and local representatives and ask them to support the above bills and prioritize legislation that funds research around perimenopause and menopause.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 Sep. 2026
CreativeFuture, the nonprofit advocating for creative copyright protections, was doing their own work, as were representatives from the TV Academy.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of representatives

Noun

McGuire also admitted to detonating the bomb in retaliation for various alleged government wrongs, including sheriff’s deputies seizing his firearms earlier that year.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Williamson County deputies have arrested a 26-year-old local man named Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu on murder and theft charges.

— Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of deputies

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This time, a half-dozen states are going before Super Tuesday and some of them have tons of delegates.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Iranian delegates said the postponement was at the request of Saudi Arabia, which has recently endured a new series of attacks from Yemen’s Houthis.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of delegates

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Patel later suggested that the scope of firings had been overblown, saying many agents had retired on their own.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
Agents can call APIs, query databases, retrieve documents, invoke other models, generate files, trigger workflows, connect to SaaS platforms and even delegate work to other agents.

— Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of agents

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Every election, the two major parties mobilize massive operations of attorneys, staffers and volunteers to monitor polling places and ballot counting.

— NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Reasons for delays in judgments aren’t always clear to the public or the respective attorneys.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of attorneys

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At least as early as 2021, managers were warning that despite ongoing efforts to add new antennas to DSN, the agency cannot reach all deep-space missions at once.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2026
But for the users of AI models and services, it's created complexity and chaos as CEOs and IT managers spend an outsized amount of time and resources comparing costs and capabilities to avoid getting left behind.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026

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