consignments

plural of consignment

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Noun
  • In his role as an officer, Baker received multiple chief’s commendations, including one in 2011 for his role in flawlessly executing multiple critical tasks during a domestic shooting incident involving a man who allegedly shot and wounded his wife in their suburban townhouse neighborhood.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Highest commendations to those who made history voting for and passing it through both chambers of the legislature.
    Robert Turner, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Iranian exporters often transfer cargoes between shadow fleet vessels—at times with the aid of tugboats—in the Persian Gulf and in waters off the coast of Singapore and Malaysia in order to disguise the origin of their cargoes.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Designer Hillary Taymour sent voluminous denim cargos with peplum at the waist down the runway.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Too often, fragmented funding streams and overlapping mandates lead to duplications of assistance in some areas and critical gaps in others.
    ARIF HUSAIN, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Recent reports point to a steady push and pull between return-to-office mandates and roles that remain remote by design, with applications clustering around flexible postings and some employers tightening attendance rules.
    Jason Phillips, IndyStar, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This year, large delegations came from France and Korea, mostly via pavilions hosted by French institutions and Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), in addition to a growing number of participants from Southeast Asia and Japan.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But, in recent years, several of the conservative Justices, in dissents, have seemed ready to start striking down some delegations as being too unspecific to be consistent with the separation of powers.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But, at a moment when big narrative audio studios are shuttering, loads of people are being laid off and fewer documentary series are being made, this sentence really struck a nerve in the industry of folks who produce, write, edit and sound design longform narrative audio.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • That could mean co-locating with renewables, using batteries to extend solar availability, or making data centers flexible enough to shift heavy compute loads to periods of abundant clean power.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • However, the marketing, promotions and affiliate relations for the shows will transition to SPT at the end of the 2025/2026 season.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • However, the marketing, promotions and affiliate relations for the shows will transition to Sony at the end of the 2025/2026 season and Sony will continue to manage brand integrations with international distribution rights to the shows moving to Sony from December 1, 2025.
    Peter White, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Legislative Audit Bureau will examine the DPI’s oversight of educator misconduct cases, including the quality of its investigations, the steps for revoking or suspending licenses and whether the agency’s policies follow state law.
    Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Any deal Sinclair engages in that would involve the transfer of broadcast licenses would be subject to FCC review and approval.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • An employee dove between two metal bales that surround the facility to quickly carry a customer who had been burned to safety.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Departing from Greenbank Station in Wilmington, this ride trades traditional passenger cars for flatbed railcars lined with hay bales, giving travelers the feel of an open-air hay wagon.
    Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Consignments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consignments. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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