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officiary

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as in official

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Minneapolis officials estimated the crackdown’s economic cost at nearly $700 million.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
Russia's round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80 others, officials said Monday.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of official

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Meanwhile, Brown, a former security official with the Michigan Department of State, said her group has hired former CISA employees to help provide training and other support to election clerks and fill the gap.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
The broker’s role shifts from data entry clerk to data reviewer.

— Wesley D. Snow, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of clerk

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The Dominican government also offers Creole language training for some public servants.

— Kendall Medford, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
Fricker’s complaint alleges, in part, that Zahnd may have violated multiple state laws, including possibly bribery of a public servant.

— Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of public servant

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Hiroto Sakata, a civil servant from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, visited Tokyo's Asakusa district on a day trip and purchased tickets for two people, which cost 2,000 yen total, and skipped the line.

— Masayuki Oi Japan News, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
Set in the summer of 1970, the story turns on the diligent civil servant Heikki who decides to host a high-ranking Soviet diplomat at his family’s lakeside cottage.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of civil servant

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That year, three of Texas’s university systems appointed former Republican officeholders as their chancellors.

— Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Both lawsuits seek damages based on a Missouri law that allows lawsuits against the secretary of state if the officeholder neglects their duties.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of officeholder

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