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Recent Examples of high command
Despite the high command’s efforts to reduce Korean aspirations to Cold War binaries, these reformers knew that their ambitions were broader and more diverse.
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Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s office, citing the Labodrie massacre, said in a statement that the government had called an urgent meeting of the high command of the Haiti National Police in response to the attacks and ordered the deployment of specialized units to secure the area.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
The military high command’s response, four decades after the last junta ceded power, confirms Brazilians’ established respect for civilian authority and little desire to return to rule by generals.
—The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2025
Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek are engaging in a psychological game of chess in writer-director James Vanderbilt‘s historical drama Nuremberg that chronicles the efforts to bring the Nazi high command to justice after World War II in the Nuremberg Trials.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
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Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s office, citing the Labodrie massacre, said in a statement that the government had called an urgent meeting of the high command of the Haiti National Police in response to the attacks and ordered the deployment of specialized units to secure the area.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
The military high command’s response, four decades after the last junta ceded power, confirms Brazilians’ established respect for civilian authority and little desire to return to rule by generals.
—The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2025
Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek are engaging in a psychological game of chess in writer-director James Vanderbilt‘s historical drama Nuremberg that chronicles the efforts to bring the Nazi high command to justice after World War II in the Nuremberg Trials.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high command
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Rising electricity rates have been a fault line in recent campaigns, especially as enormous data centers are built to power artificial intelligence.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Hager, who worked at three ARC centers during the span of nearly a decade, said those kinds of groups that ARC billed for were the standard and forging group notes was common.—
Alex Acquisto,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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Then, on the other side of the river by the draft stage, there will be medical tents from AHN and UPMC, along with AHN's command center at Nova Place.—
Lauren Linder,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Washington wanted to test if the Iranian command, after seeing the destruction from six weeks of war and the killing of its Supreme Leader, would now bend to its will, experts said.—
Saeed Shah,
Time,
13 Apr. 2026
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The Nets closed their 2025-26 home schedule Thursday night at Barclays Center with a 123-94 loss to the Indiana Pacers, a game that looked and felt like two teams protecting lottery position.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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According to prosecutors, Schooley had connections to Persia’s family, including performing construction work at her stepfather’s home and a business associated with him.—
Angelique Brenes,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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What was once an underground cult favorite has now been scaled up for a 1,700-seat Broadway house.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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Orbán cemented his power when his Fidesz party won enough seats in Parliament during the 2010 global recession to rewrite the country's constitution.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Even as China remains one of Iran’s biggest diplomatic allies, President Xi Jinping’s support for the Islamic Republic is being constrained by a vast trail of Chinese capital across the Gulf.—
Bloomberg,
Bloomberg,
10 Apr. 2026
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The capital murder trial of Tanner Horner entered its second day on Wednesday, and the jury watched several hours of video showing law enforcement interrogation of Horner and the discovery of 7-year-old Athena Strand’s body.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2026
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