Thesaurus results for COMMISSARIES

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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Both slates will also feed into JAFF Market’s first Producers Exchange, which will set up meetings between participating producers and the JFP teams, JIPCon representatives, exhibitors and other delegates.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
During the meeting, Cohen explained that the event would bring together Jewish community representatives, diplomats and government officials, many of whom were not Jewish.

— Ariella Noveck, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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Fourteen sheriff’s office deputies flanked the courtroom and filled in the spaces between Collins’ family and the defendants’ parents while a clerk read the verdict aloud.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2026
The deputies will be compensated at $75 per hour for a minimum of a four-hour coverage period.

— Glory Reitz, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026

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Organizers are increasingly capitalizing on the excitement surrounding Formula 1 to extend delegates' stays, according to Poh Chi Chuan, executive director of exhibitions and conferences at STB.

— Jenny Lee,Matthew Tan, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Total attendance this year was 10,100 delegates, down approximately 500 from last year, of which 3,150 were buyers – that’s 34% of the total delegate number – down approximately 150 people from last year.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

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Belgal was shot by ICE Thursday, according to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who said agents surrounded the man and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple times.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
On the other hand, those whiz-bang AI agents could simply shift companies’ existing software spending rather than actually grow it as hoped.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

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At the meetings in Bangkok, finance ministers and central bank governors will assess the state of the world economy and discuss strategies to support financial stability and sustained growth.

— Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Also on Monday, the foreign and defense ministers of Pakistan and Turkey agreed with Saudi Arabia to deploy military forces to the kingdom under their defense pact.

— AHMED AL-HAJ, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026

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For companies, congressional oversight usually creates legal and advisory costs, but adverse headlines are the greatest hazard, said attorneys and analysts.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026
Earlier this year, Parker asked the Supreme Court to throw out the requirement to pay Maricopa County’s legal fees in the case, arguing such sanctions would deter attorneys from bringing aggressive or novel legal claims.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of attorneys

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In Lean In and McKinsey’s 2024 Women in the Workplace study, 78% of managers said more is expected of them than a few years ago, most often around employee well-being, career development and inclusion.

— Anna Maria Chavez, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
In the eighteen-seventies, after thieves began kidnapping bank managers, James Sargent invented the first commercially successful time lock.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

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