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Recent Examples of adjutant Whereas until recently political elites had a degree of decision-making power, the war has made them into the executors of Putin’s will, mere adjutants to the generalissimo. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024 His first innovation, suggested by the director and Factory adjutant Paul Morrissey, was to add the German chanteuse Nico to the Velvets’ lineup. Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023 In postwar court documents he is referred to as Arājs’s adjutant. Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023 Born May 13, 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Gravel served in the US Army as an adjutant in the Communications Intelligence Service in Germany and a special agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps in France from 1951 to 1954, according to a biography on his website. Chandelis Duster, CNN, 27 June 2021 See All Example Sentences for adjutant
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Noun
  • In October, Microsoft added support for Anthropic’s Sonnet model in its GitHub Copilot assistant, and weeks later, some programmers reported that Cursor was preferable to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Now, Amy Borghesi is charged with stealing cash from school fundraisers throughout her two-year employment as an administrative assistant at Murphy Elementary School, according to school officials and court documents filed on April 15.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The pontiff, who had been facing major health issues in the past several weeks, used an aide, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, to deliver his Easter Sunday speech to a crowd gathered at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Signal chat until recently included about a dozen of Hegseth's top aides, including Joe Kasper, Hegseth's chief of staff, and Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's chief spokesman.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Shelley Webb is a supervising deputy in the criminal division of the City Attorney’s Office.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Two men were killed in a shooting near West Palm Beach on Saturday afternoon, deputies said.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The show, which will tell the story of Maul teaching an apprentice, will debut in 2026.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Abrego Garcia remains in the US Over the next six years, Abrego Garcia is a full-time sheet metal apprentice and takes classes at the University of Maryland to get his journeyman license.
    George Petras, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There are volunteer opportunities, a teen club, and during the current conflict, the Hesed has become a hub for delivering tons of humanitarian aid, trauma care, and kinship.
    Maria Zimina, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Of the more than $175 billion in aid that the US Congress has appropriated to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion, more than $120 billion has been spent directly with US companies or on US Forces, according to conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That was Eric DeCosta’s first year as general manager after serving for many seasons as Ozzie Newsome’s longtime lieutenant.
    Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The firefighters, engineers, paramedics and lieutenants were being represented in court by attorneys from their union, the International Association of Firefighters.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025

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