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Recent Examples of ministerial The most notable change to the ministerial picks was incoming Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, head of the Paris police, who replaces Bruno Retailleau, leader of the conservative Republicans Party and who harbours his own presidential ambitions. CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025 Netanyahu’s coalition lost its majority in the Israeli parliament in July when two ultra-Orthodox parties left their ministerial posts after an exemption that granted religious students a pass for military conscription expired. Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025 According to Laurie Magnus, the government’s adviser on ministerial standards, her error was not having sought advice from a tax specialist. Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025 Kais Saied, who is in China on a state visit, attended the opening ceremony of the 10th ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum. Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ministerial
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Adjective
  • Could Trump’s pastoral critics ultimately face the same frivolous yet burdensome investigations that now plague his political critics?
    Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • These payments are in part calculated by work history and income but also are adjusted every year based on the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W).
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) from July through September.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Ministerial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ministerial. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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