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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 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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Along with attending matches, Infantino’s itinerary included stops in New York for an interview on Fox & Friends and in Miami for a FIFA summit attended by representatives from the organization’s 211 member associations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
Hopkinson and chief financial officer Simon Capper visited Nyon, Switzerland, on multiple occasions, while the CEO also spoke to governing-body representatives in Budapest before the Champions League final in May.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 July 2026

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But by Sunday, the field had largely been cleared after Jackson supporters spent the weekend securing hundreds of delegates who promised to back him at the upcoming state convention.

— Kimberlee Kruesi, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
It was rejected, an outcome rendered moot when Norway failed to qualify, but delegates passed a separate motion requiring the federation’s president to voice their collective criticism at the next FIFA Congress in Qatar.

— Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026

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Authorities arrested Munster and Claude Kwe, a research fellow at Rocky Mountain Labs, June 2 on charges of conspiracy to smuggle mpox into the United States and lying to border agents.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
The first few days after a home is listed often generate the greatest attention, with buyers and agents watching closely for new properties that fit their needs.

— Heartland MLS®, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026

Definition of agents

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Royalty, Prime ministers, Hollywood actors and homeless Londoners have all eaten the food of The Punjab, sometimes on the same day.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
In April, ministers from Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain wrote to the European Commission calling for another EU windfall tax.

— Julia Simon, NPR, 16 July 2026

Definition of ministers

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Defense lawyers have since withdrawn their motion to dismiss the case after the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control in April began allowing Maduro and Flores to receive money from Venezuela to pay for their attorneys.

— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 22 July 2026
The brothers, who appeared in federal court in Miami on Monday, have denied all allegations against them and their attorneys have vowed to fight against the extradition request.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 21 July 2026

Definition of attorneys

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Few high-profile managers embraced the ‘suffering’ mantra to the same degree as Italian coach Antonio Conte.

— Colin Millar, New York Times, 19 July 2026
The SpaceX offering featured twenty-three banks, a crew that ranged from the aforementioned giants to asset managers Bernstein and Mirae of South Korea.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 July 2026

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