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Recent Examples of commissary Trans women will be subjected to pat-down searches by male guards and will be prohibited from purchasing women’s clothing like underwear and bras from the prison commissary. Abby Monteil, Them, 24 Feb. 2025 Kumar purchased the dilapidated former Burger King last year and plans to convert the building into a commissary and test kitchen to create new menu items for his other restaurants and to provide training for his cooks. Tyler Williams, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2025 Prep work gets done at Gourmet Garage, a commissary kitchen in Loomis. Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2025 Protesters had commissary privileges revoked, were placed in solitary confinement and faced disciplinary write-ups, the complaint alleges. Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for commissary
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Noun
  • Shelley Webb is a supervising deputy in the criminal division of the City Attorney’s Office.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Two men were killed in a shooting near West Palm Beach on Saturday afternoon, deputies said.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Avoid getting stuck in daily operations—delegate effectively and focus on high-value contributions.
    Michel Koopman, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Such industrial excavations risk wiping out untold (and, indeed, as yet unseen) natural wonders, though delegates of the ISA are unable to reach an agreement as to how to curb or monitor them.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Newsweek reached out to Perry's representative via email for comment on Monday.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Today’s official kick-off follows the signing of an accord by representatives of the European Union’s European Investment Fund (EIF) in Paris on Friday committing €25M ($28.5M) to the fund.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Oh yes, and there was one other common denominator with all these contract extensions: None of the agents involved was named Scott Boras.
    Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The defense pointed to several potential suspects at the home at the time, including Albert, his nephew and their friend, an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives who had been exchanging flirty text messages with Read.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With Real Madrid 2-0 down after 70 minutes against Arsenal, manager Carlo Ancelotti turned to his bench to try to turn the Champions League quarter-final back in his team’s favour.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • That’s plenty of draft capital for general manager Eric DeCosta, who is always a threat to trade back in certain rounds to accrue more picks.
    Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Khalil's attorneys harshly criticized Rubio's memo and the government's case against Khalil.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Toward the end of the documentary, the mothers and their attorney agree that Rockelle is the first and biggest victim in the Squad debacle.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Ong, 79, is scheduled to plead guilty next week to charges related to the offences of former transport minister S. Iswaran, who was convicted in October of breaking the law for receiving gifts from the businessman.
    Jonathan Burgos, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • She was born near Pittsburgh, the daughter of a minister.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025

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“Commissary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commissary. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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