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as in official
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as in federal
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governmental
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Latest Look At Pixel 10 Pro Design Ahead of the launch on August 20th, official renders of the Pixel 10 and Pixel 10 Pro have leaked.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
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Nearly 2,000 disappeared since last September just in Sinaloa, according to the official tally.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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These taxes rapidly grew as the U.S. increasingly projected military power overseas, and disasters like financial crashes and the Dust Bowl demanded that the federal government grow to prevent economic collapse and starvation.—
Reco McCambry,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Population totals are also used for dividing up trillions in federal funding for public services in communities across the country.—
Hansi Lo Wang,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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Bigelow and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim construct a frighteningly plausible scenario in which a multitude of dilemmas—practical and personal, bureaucratic and existential—overlap in real time and at a mounting rate.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
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In its period of bureaucratic limbo, occasional government caretakers hitched a ride.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Fans of Boston’s two municipal golf courses received good news Tuesday.—
Boston Herald staff,
Boston Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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Stats shared by the group show that the average Utah city consumes 245 gallons of municipal water per capita per day, compared to the U.S. average of 138—placing locals among the more wasteful water users in the country.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
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Look into implementing just-in-time (JIT) access for administrative privileges, as this can help ensure elevated permissions are only granted when needed and automatically expire.—
Nick Rowe,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Garland alleged she was placed unfairly on administrative leave after uncovering tampering and misconduct among IPD officers responsible for evidence storage.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
16 Aug. 2025
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The investigation team questioned Kim for about seven hours on Wednesday on various allegations, including claims that Yoon and Kim exerted undue influence over the conservative party's candidate nominations for a parliamentary by-election in 2022.—
KIM TONG-HYUNG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
8 Aug. 2025
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The leader holds immense personal authority, enabling him to sustain his rule by handing out spoils to supporters, gerrymandering parliamentary districts, rigging election counts, limiting press freedom, and diverting state resources to his party to hobble the opposition.—
MICHAEL JOHNSTON,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Aug. 2025
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No Please list your highlights of civic involvement 2019 Charlotte Day-lead and held the initiatives with other nonprofits to feed and give away bookbags to 10,000 ppl not funded by the city and state.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Aug. 2025
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Philanthropy, policymakers, and business and civic leaders should work together to remove barriers to entry and scale, especially those linked to workplace constraints.—
Bruno V. Manno,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, speaks at the opening ceremony of the China-CELAC Forum ministerial meeting at the Great Hall of People in Beijing on May 13 and U.S. President Donald Trump at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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According to the plaintiffs, the city should have processed the project application on a discretionary basis but instead has handled them all on a ministerial basis, based on set standards rather than individual judgments.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Governmental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governmental. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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