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Recent Examples of governor
In July this year, after the two Cleveland Guardians pitchers were placed on leave, Mike DeWine, the governor of Ohio, urged the state’s gaming commission to outlaw props.
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Danny Funt, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
Businesswoman Supha Xayprasith-Mays of Bentonville on Tuesday announced her bid for governor in the 2026 elections, four years after making an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for governor.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2025
On Tuesday, Rio de Janeiro’s governor claimed the operation in Alemão was larger than an infamous, protracted security crisis the neighborhood experienced in 2010.
—Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
New Jersey and Virginia voters have a track record of electing a governor from the opposite party of the president.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
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Danny Funt, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
Businesswoman Supha Xayprasith-Mays of Bentonville on Tuesday announced her bid for governor in the 2026 elections, four years after making an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for governor.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2025
On Tuesday, Rio de Janeiro’s governor claimed the operation in Alemão was larger than an infamous, protracted security crisis the neighborhood experienced in 2010.
—Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
New Jersey and Virginia voters have a track record of electing a governor from the opposite party of the president.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governor
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So are the county administrators who manage their benefits.—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Students, administrators, C-suite executives and more, each attesting to how my road map propelled them to put one foot in front of the other and enter a season of triumph.—
Alma Cooper,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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An executive from another competitor, Halco (which was sold and got out of the Halloween business long before Ben Cooper and Collegeville), credited the boom in licensed costumes to the rise in TV.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
24 Oct. 2025
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Nonprofit experts and executives have criticized the organization and its board for failing to detect the theft, citing problems, including a bloated board, failure to change auditors, and ex-CFO William Smith's sole control of the organization's checking account.—
Violet Ikonomova,
Freep.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Lost in Space ship was piloted by Guy Williams as the expedition commander and Lockhart's onscreen husband, Professor John Robinson, and Mark Goddard's Major West.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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Still, the commander-in-chief can authorize military force without Congress, but only in response to an imminent threat.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency is not so fortunate, said Renee Pertile, early childhood director at the agency.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Gunterman is immersed in local student journalism as the executive director of the Indiana High School Press Association and the faculty adviser of Franklin College's student newspaper.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
27 Oct. 2025
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But employers are still calculating employee withholdings, or how much federal income tax to deduct from an employee's paycheck, using the higher rates despite the law's passage in July.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Amazon has previously told Sourcing Journal that, at this juncture, it has not been legally obliged to serve as a joint employer for the workers the Teamsters have brought issues over.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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Valery Gerasimov, Russia's most senior general, told Putin the Burevestnik had covered roughly 14,000 kilometers, or 8,700 miles, in a 15-hour test flight on October 21.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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Halo is Xbox, and Xbox is Halo, and console warriors participating in the decades-long fanboy battle against Sony and PlayStation point to Master Chief as their four-star general.—
Alyssa Mercante,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Rosensweig, a former top executive at Yahoo who joined Chegg as CEO in 2010, stepped down from the post in April 2024, handing the job to Schultz, who was operating chief at the time.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
28 Oct. 2025
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The restructuring brings in regional chiefs and supervisors normally stationed at the nation's borders to carry out immigration arrests inside the country, a move representing a departure from traditional immigration enforcement structures.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools Community District, wrote that the next mayor can lobby at the state level for more equitable funding for public schools.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Molinar took over as interim superintendent after Angélica Ramsey resigned in September 2024, and was given the job in March.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Governor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governor. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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