as in proxy
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For better or worse, Dawson served as an emotional, often cautionary, proxy for millennials’ own coming-of-age messiness.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026 -
The lie has become a proxy for distrust of Democratic leaders on issues across the board.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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Kaiser has proposed cutting retirement and medical benefits for these groups, freezing wages for current employees and cutting wages for new hires, said Brian Mason, lead negotiator for the nurse midwives.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Interim superintendent Cancy McArn has served as chief human resources officer and head negotiator for the district.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
13 Feb. 2026
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The city attorney’s office also spent tens of millions of dollars on outside attorneys in a related case, with Clark and others repeatedly denying wrongdoing.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Bruce Meyer, a veteran attorney and the lead labor negotiator for baseball players since 2018, was named the seventh executive director in the history of the Major League Baseball Players Association on Wednesday evening.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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The university disputed his statement, saying the deficit is substantially lower and stems from broader institutional and external factors.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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In his appeal, Green argued the sentence was too harsh – that Judge Samuel Cappas abused his discretion with the factors used to come up with his prison term.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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At that time, [Coco] was really into throwing her pacifier on the ground.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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Whereas the socket is connected to itself, functioning like a pacifier.—
Bettina Funcke,
Artforum,
7 Jan. 2026
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Hours after her post, deputies assigned to the Salton City sheriff’s station responded to a call about the discovery of human remains in Salton City.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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According to Reyes-English’s suit, she was hired by the city in July 2013 as a senior field deputy, also known as a council aide, in Price’s council district.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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This McGill and Chinese University of Hong Kong grad also has bylines in Architectural Digest, Men's Journal, Town & Country, and Observer—occasionally trading his keyboard for time in front of cameras for brand campaigns or keeping conversations flowing as a panel moderator.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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At that stage the festival moderator steered the conversation back to the movie.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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He was also sanctioned by the European Union in January 2019 following a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, which the British government said was carried out by GRU agents to poison a former Russian spy.—
Anna Chernova,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Right now, enforcement agents are often using administrative warrants, or internal documents signed by immigration officers that authorize specific arrests but not searches.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Pacificator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacificator. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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