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Recent Examples of commissioners
At the local level, Travis County will have two Democratic primaries for commissioners, Williamson County will have one Republican commissioner primary and Bastrop County will have one Republican and one Democratic county judge primary.
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Statesman Staff, Austin American Statesman, 2 Mar. 2026
Statesman Staff, Austin American Statesman, 2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commissioners
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Hoping to lessen the impact on interim and permanent housing as much as possible, the supervisors slashed $27 million from outreach and navigation programs and cut by two-thirds the county program that moves people out of street encampments into shelters.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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People can return their mail ballots at drop boxes at supervisors of elections offices in their home counties.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2026
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Temporary monitoring, including fire watch coverage, may help show that building managers took steps to supervise the property while repairs were underway.—
Matthew Kayser,
Miami Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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Puck will be working with a huge team that includes 75 savory chefs, 45 pastry chefs, and 325 front-of-house staff and managers.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
11 Mar. 2026
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The production took place in two-episode blocks and was primarily chronological, with directors David Gordon Green and Charlotte Brändström at the helm.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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The reasons for this are manifold, but include the fact that the Academy’s directors’ branch, which decides on the nominations, is still predominantly male, and has historically overlooked the work of women.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
11 Mar. 2026
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Connecticut Education Association President Kate Dias said that might help explain why the state’s teachers’ unions are strongly in favor of a statewide bell-to-bell ban, while administrators and boards of education are mixed, if not against.—
Theo Peck-Suzuki,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2026
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The White House on Friday hosted a college sports roundtable with conference commissioners, university administrators and media stakeholders, but didn’t include athletes.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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In the past several months, superintendents in large urban and suburban districts — including Natomas and Twin Rivers — have signed open letters to state legislators asking for more robust funding for schools, citing economic instability and labor disputes.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
11 Mar. 2026
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Safety is always far and away the primary factor, said all 15 superintendents surveyed by The Courant.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
5 Mar. 2026
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The risk when one person holds the top job for decades is that talented executives who aspire to be CEO get frustrated and leave.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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Resolving the union issue has been a snag in every previous discussion to combine CBS News and CNN over the years, according to several former executives at both outlets.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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To at least minimize the damage, the coalition is pressing state regulators to adopt a different, slightly longer path that follows existing highway corridors.—
Marc Levy,
Fortune,
8 Mar. 2026
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But in an apparent side mission from playing baseball in Sacramento and building new digs in Las Vegas, the A’s lawyers are again looking to sue state regulators over Radius, with no apparent financial incentive.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Playing fast and loose with federal funds could reflect an issue within a singular agency — inadequate leadership, bad direction or rogue bureaucrats, for example.—
Steve Arentz,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Mar. 2026
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Trump is the one person who can stop this proposal with one word to the federal bureaucrats who put forth this plan.—
Shane Weddle,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Commissioners.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commissioners. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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