commissioner

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Recent Examples of commissioner Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark didn’t slam the brakes on College Football Playoff expansion during his state-of-the-conference remarks Friday in Frisco, Texas — that authority belongs exclusively to the Big Ten and SEC. Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 29 May 2026 Deputy commissioner Dan Halem and MLB executive vice president of baseball operations Morgan Sword presented the cap plan to players during a bargaining session at the commissioner’s office, one day after the union made its economic proposal. Ronald Blum, Fortune, 29 May 2026 The Big 12 fully supports a 24-team College Football Playoff and the College Sports Commission participant agreement, commissioner Brett Yormark announced Friday. Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2026 Then Sanchez, a former Miami city commissioner, got some bad news. Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for commissioner
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Noun
  • These include elections for board of supervisors, district and city attorneys, superintendents and more.
    Paris Barraza, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • The nonrecurring grant funds will be used to pay for security improvement projects at Miami-Dade Catholic schools, according to Jim Rigg, superintendent of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Miami.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The recent opening of a new center, explained Jill Martin, senior director of food and nutrition services at UC San Diego Health, argued for creating a new training program rather than a recruitment push.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026
  • As creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton, Williams is an organic partner for Moët & Chandon, which belongs to the wines and spirits division of luxury conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • School administrators are caught off guard by parents who have read the book and insist on policy changes.
    Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 31 May 2026
  • Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading.
    Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • The alternative asset manager said that Blackstone Capital Partners Asia III exceeded its $10 billion target, with the fund raising more than double the amount of its predecessor vehicle.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • Its Resolver platform uses AI to ingest security information and help risk managers run remediations with an audit trail, cutting the lag time between detecting a breach and containing it.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Knicks executive Leon Rose did just that, pairing former Villanova stars Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart with the Knicks (and, briefly, Donte DiVincenzo, a fourth college teammate).
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 4 June 2026
  • Hundreds of fans filled the college town’s sidewalks, and streets were closed for the black SUVs that dropped off A-listers and executives on the bright blue carpet.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Even though the rivers have been quiet ever since, the bureau has continued to maintain a full-time dedicated crew of two firefighters and a supervisor, with the boat costing taxpayers $1 million a year to staff and maintain.
    Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • She was promoted to accountant around October 2012, the lawsuit says, to accounting supervisor in August 2019 and to accounting manager in the union’s international secretary-treasurer’s office in April 2024.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • California air regulators approved a sweeping update of the state’s cap-and-invest program, tightening the pollution cap while reshaping how billions in climate dollars flow through communities and industry.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • Political leaders and regulators have failed in parallel, whether through misunderstanding, passivity, or fascination with the technology itself.
    Christopher Marquis, Time, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • Even at the baseball game, the chairman of the Doosan conglomerate that owns the Bears is set to join as a batter.
    Justina Lee,Lisa Kim, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • Garbarino, the chairman, who is White, said House rules don’t allow disparaging members of Congress, witnesses like Mullin, or the president or vice president.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 June 2026

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“Commissioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commissioner. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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