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officiary

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as in official

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Federal officials contend the voters’ citizenship must be verified before their ballots are counted and requested that the ballots be set aside.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 3 Nov. 2026
Last week, a federal appeals court declined to order California officials to set aside those ballots.

— Austin Turner, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

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Elections clerks around California in the week before the election were sent subpoenas to testify before grand juries slated to convene in November.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
Minnie creeps out of her shell, signing up to sing in the talent show and developing a crush on a video store clerk (Iman Vellani).

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

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Elon Musk waved a chainsaw on stage and laughed while firing public servants and gutting the services Americans rely on.

— Katie McQue, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Worst of all are those who claim to be super Christian and then embrace public servants who are just plain mean, carrying themselves like adolescent schoolyard bullies without compunction.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of public servant

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The news, announced Thursday, comes after season four ended with a dramatic scene at the G7 summit, raising questions about the careers of a number of the series’ long-term civil servants.

— Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026
The postwar model of a large welfare and regulatory state, run by a class of civil servants charged with modernizing the economy, tempering market forces and defining the common good, has run its course.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of civil servant

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An election changes the officeholder; the lawful duties of the office continue.

— Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2026
Just as is now the case--when officeholders in Arkansas blindly follow a con man who will go down as the worst president in American history--Arkansas found itself on the wrong side of history in the 1950s.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of officeholder

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