subchief

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Noun
  • Felipe is the subdirector of an art museum in Santiago, so regional arts and crafts were also on the agenda.
    Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Ana Maria Castaño, the ecosystems subdirector with Corantioquia, Antioquia’s environmental authority, agrees.
    Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 13 June 2020
Noun
  • This can have weird consequences since there is often a lag between the time that the debtor's employer remits money to the sheriff's office and the sheriff's office lags in sending the money to the creditor.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Several active, high-profile employers in the aerospace sector are at the forefront of hiring struggles.
    Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • The Minnesota Wild’s big guns showed up in a big way Saturday night, and the Avs looked wobbly for the first time in this tournament in a 5-1 loss in Game 3 at Grand Casino Arena.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 10 May 2026
  • Against Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup, Wrexham twice raced into a two-goal lead only for the half-time of introduction of the Premier League’s ‘big guns’ to underline how far the Welsh club still has to go if their owners’ top flight ambitions are to be realised.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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“Subchief.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subchief. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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