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officiary

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as in official

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His son Jack, who had attended the event in California, was instrumental in making these mazes happen, Universal officials have said.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
Chinese officials said 558 people were missing after a mudslide at a land crossing in Tibet’s Gyirong county, including 260 foreign nationals.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026

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He would be sentenced to four years of formal probation, according to the clerk’s office.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Trump posted on Truth Social about the former federal appellate court clerk and Princeton University and Harvard Law School graduate.

— Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026

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Using crowdsourcing techniques, VroniPlag Wiki in Germany and Dissernet in Russia have exposed numerous instances of plagiarism by public servants in their dissertations and academic publications.

— Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
However, the former public servant was ultimately banned from leaving the country.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of public servant

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His father, a welder, left school after sixth grade; his mother, a civil servant, didn’t finish high school.

— Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Other governments, including the US, have their own rules and disclosure requirements, but beyond the breadth of the controls in China, the sheer number of people affected is striking – and reaches far beyond civil servants.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of civil servant

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The association is using the $7 million to back officeholders in Iowa, Kansas, Georgia, Ohio, Florida and Texas and Republican candidates in Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Nevada, New York, and Wisconsin.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
The state constitution bars state officeholders from seeking a different office with a start date more than 30 days before the end of the officeholder's current term.

— CBS News, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

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