as in office
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization
the city desk of a prominent newspaper
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Recent Examples of desk
The window next to my desk overlooks the gym’s large communal exercise room, and throughout the day, I am taunted by the sight of gyrating bodies panting through a Zumba class or a kettlebell set.
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Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Modern chips are becoming so powerful that air cooling is like trying to put out a forest fire with a desk fan.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
Epstein owned a giclée print of the van Dongen painting and hung it above his desk in his Upper East Side townhouse.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026
Smith could only continue to look disgusted, leaning on the large studio desk, speechless.
—Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
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Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Modern chips are becoming so powerful that air cooling is like trying to put out a forest fire with a desk fan.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
Epstein owned a giclée print of the van Dongen painting and hung it above his desk in his Upper East Side townhouse.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026
Smith could only continue to look disgusted, leaning on the large studio desk, speechless.
—Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desk
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The office also pointed to efforts to expand security funding for religious institutions, strengthen hate crime laws and support Holocaust and genocide education initiatives.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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City staffers are required to get approval before their travel begins, not after, but those expenses were included among more than two dozen expense reports from the mayor’s office, which were approved without discussion.—
Jeff Abell,
Baltimore Sun,
7 May 2026
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The vote requests that the department’s all-civilian watchdog adopt new guidelines similar to San Francisco, which bars police officers from pulling people over for broken taillights and other minor equipment violations unless there is a safety threat.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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This promotion puts him atop the Eagles’ scouting department.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
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Arizona Public Service has nearly 40 active AI smoke-detection cameras and plans to have 71 by summer’s end, and the state’s fire agency has deployed seven of its own.—
Dorany Pineda,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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The Florida black bear, one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear, is often lauded as a Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission success story, though the agency was sharply criticized for staging a hunt of the state’s largest land mammal last year.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
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This ambitious history, by the Wall Street Journal’s former Korea bureau chief, traces how Kim Il Sung’s cult of personality is indebted to the Presbyterian faith in which he was raised.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Emma Caughlan Emma Caughlan is an assignment editor for NBC News’ New York bureau.—
Jay Blackman,
NBC news,
4 May 2026
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“Desk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desk. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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