1
as in agencies
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization
the Department of the Interior
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2
as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
that's not my department, but maybe I can help you anyway
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Recent Examples of departments
Last July, the Unified Government voted to adopt a revenue-neutral budget, forgoing more than $14 million in potential property tax revenue and resulting in budget cuts across government departments and programs.
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Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
Despite this, individual departments are the ultimate arbiter of these return-to-office exceptions.
—William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
These departments enforce solvency regulations, conduct financial examinations, and ensure that insurers maintain sufficient reserves to cover claims.
—True Tamplin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
On Tuesday, the House passed the bill by four votes, allowing federal departments to be funded through September.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2025
Wander said departments’ latitude to grant or rescind exemptions has prevented her from applying for promotions because the change might lead to her losing her current remote-work status.
—William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
Already, several nonprofits help raise private donations for city agencies, including ones linked to the fire, police and parks departments.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
State insurance departments also oversee consumer protection initiatives, ensuring that policyholders receive fair treatment in the event of disputes or financial difficulties.
—True Tamplin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Additionally, hospital labs often had to confirm results with state departments of health.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2025
Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
Despite this, individual departments are the ultimate arbiter of these return-to-office exceptions.
—William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
These departments enforce solvency regulations, conduct financial examinations, and ensure that insurers maintain sufficient reserves to cover claims.
—True Tamplin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
On Tuesday, the House passed the bill by four votes, allowing federal departments to be funded through September.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2025
Wander said departments’ latitude to grant or rescind exemptions has prevented her from applying for promotions because the change might lead to her losing her current remote-work status.
—William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
Already, several nonprofits help raise private donations for city agencies, including ones linked to the fire, police and parks departments.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
State insurance departments also oversee consumer protection initiatives, ensuring that policyholders receive fair treatment in the event of disputes or financial difficulties.
—True Tamplin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Additionally, hospital labs often had to confirm results with state departments of health.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for departments
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Before the collision, there were 28 government agencies authorized to fly helicopters near Reagan National, including the Department of Defense, military services, law enforcement and emergency medical services.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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Some veterans who went into public service have lost jobs since funding cuts, Del Rio said, and agencies have banded together to help find jobs.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) activated a Debris Response Area and slowed down aircraft in affected areas as the debris was falling.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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For example, SpaceX removed some heat-shield tiles from the Flight 8 upper stage to stress-test certain vulnerable areas.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Tourism officials in both destinations cited social media and widespread access to smartphones as a reason for shutting down physical offices.—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Many Social Security field offices are no longer accepting walk-in appointments.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
13 Apr. 2025
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Balancing Safety With Efficiency Agentic architectures are seen as the future in highly sensitive and dynamic environments, such as healthcare or autonomous vehicles because these domains require specialized knowledge and decision-making skills that can’t be covered by large generic models.—
Julius Černiauskas,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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This issue might have nightmarish consequences in such sensitive domains as medicine, defense or law enforcement.—
Julius Černiauskas,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The transfers came just two days after Tisch made a number of administrative appointments, including new heads of the department’s public information and technology bureaus.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
22 Dec. 2024
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However, since March 2020, late and missing payments have not been reported to the credit reporting bureaus.—
Robert Farrington,
Forbes,
9 Oct. 2024
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And so the entire experience was designed to help people understand what these three realms mean to them.—
Charles Moss,
SPIN,
23 Dec. 2024
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In these realms, Archaea—microorganisms similar to, but evolutionarily distinct from, bacteria—thrive.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corp said more than 50 Liberal members of parliament from Ontario - the most populous of the 10 provinces and the party's main stronghold - held a call on Saturday and agreed Trudeau had to step down.—
David Ljunggren,
USA TODAY,
23 Dec. 2024
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Whatever the reasons for the casting decisions, the Roman empire really did house people of innumerable ethnicities in provinces ranging from Scotland to Arabia.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
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Her specialties include acne, moles, skin cancer, and eczema.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
3 Jan. 2025
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Oncologists have had a head start on translating somatic-mutation science into practice, but doing the same in other specialties—including mine—may prove challenging.—
Jason Liebowitz,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Departments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/departments. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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