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Recent Examples of vice admiralThese were bequeathed to her nephew Erik af Klint, a vice admiral in the Swedish Navy.—Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 Donegan, the retired vice admiral, praised that strategy during a recent call hosted by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.—Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025 The vice admiral announced on Wednesday that the Orion operation was conducted between Oct. 1 and Nov. 14.—Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Nov. 2024 His father, Henry Kitson, was a vice admiral in the British Navy; his mother, Marjorie (de Pass) Kitson, was the daughter of a wealthy sugar and coffee importer.—Clay Risen, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for vice admiral
The Pentagon’s firing of two dozen admirals and generals over the past year has made some wary of challenging the president’s ambitions.
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Jonathan Lemire,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
Kudrow, who of course spent years on Friends, and King, who did his time in Murphy Brown and later ran 2 Broke Girls, are former admirals who have seen their vast, 22-episode-a-year domains dry up to the size of a kiddie pool.
The novel by Herman Melville about a great white whale and the sea captain consumed by the beast that had bitten off his leg sold only a few hundred copies upon its release in England and America in 1851.
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Dan Kelly
March 24,
Kansas City Star,
24 Mar. 2026
The Bluff stars Chopra Jonas as a former pirate captain who hung up her sword for a tranquil life until her sea captain is kidnapped by a former nemesis.
But the uncertainty surrounding the club (head coach Gareth Taylor wasn’t hired until three weeks before the season started, while the club had lost Smith and club captain Taylor Hinds to Arsenal) was anathema to someone so conscientious.
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Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
This is the latest installment of Crews on Cruise, a column spotlighting the people who work behind the scenes of the world’s most memorable voyages—from bartenders and entertainers to ship captains and expedition leaders.