commissioner

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Recent Examples of commissioner The spin-off operation could have created a commissioner-like role for him beyond 2031 paying much more than his current $6 million annual salary and bonus deal as president. ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026 Adam Silver, who had just been named NBA Commissioner and chief executive of the league, told Tatum that he was being considered for the deputy commissioner role. Jabari Young, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Fox News Digital contacted the offices of the Spanish, Italian and Irish prime ministers and the office of the European commissioner. Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Yes Jon Carpenter is the Western Commission Seat 1 commissioner and has been in this position since he was elected in 2024, and his term is set to end in December of 2028. Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for commissioner
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Noun
  • Jason Christopher Puopolo, the former West Sacramento parks operations superintendent, was released from custody after posting a $10,000 bail bond on April 20, Yolo Superior Court records show.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The transportation office referred inquiries to the superintendent's administrative assistant.
    Amanda Pitts, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Argyro Chioti, the National Theater’s artistic director, said the production should become the norm rather than the exception.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Essential California sat down with Ben Orbison, FOLAR’s director of strategic communications, and spoke about festival highlights and motivations.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Some offices also have a financial administrator purchase subscriptions and then reimburse that person.
    Luke Fountain,Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Yahoo is not a sponsor of, administrator of, or otherwise affiliated with this Competition.
    The Athletic, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Gausman earned a high-five and slap on the back from manager Craig Counsell in the dugout after his night ended.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Iglesias plunked Heliot Ramos and that was all Braves manager Walt Weiss needed to see.
    Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • An executive nobody had heard of became a target of online attacks for the offense of trying to turn around a fading chicken and biscuits restaurant.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • This, however, is still the same executive who has spun deadline deals for Trea Turner, Max Scherzer, Manny Machado and Yu Darvish during his time running the Dodgers’ dynasty.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Instead, music supervisor Thomas Golubić assembled a range of possible tracks and let the sequence reveal itself in the edit.
    Deadline, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Kim, 49, a member of San Francisco’s board of supervisors from 2011 to 2019, has touted her advocacy for California’s first $15 minimum wage and making the city’s community college tuition free, among other progressive causes.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • China has moved to bar companionship chatbots from encouraging emotional reliance, which means a regulator can decide that a relationship somebody depends on will stop existing.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • In any case, Illinois should wait to see how federal regulators and regional transmission operators resolve these same questions around regulating data center demand on peak summer days before adopting its own rules, Tietz said.
    John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Shah notes that much of the criticism of SpaceX’s governance structure centers on the CEO and chairman roles being handled by one person.
    Alastair Marsh, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Yat Siu, executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said on the On The Margin podcast that the original idea was ownership, not speculation.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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“Commissioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commissioner. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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