as in commander
one in official command especially of a military force or base
the commandant of a naval district
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The first to fall under Mr. Trump was the Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Linda L. Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of a branch of the armed forces.
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Helene Cooper, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
The investigation, closed in January 2020 during Trump’s first administration, was not voluntarily disclosed to Congress or the public by the Coast Guard until 2023, as it had been withheld by the service’s commandant at the time, Adm. Karl Schultz.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
Fagan did not serve as commandant during that period but has testified about it twice.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2025
So all of that encouragement hits me differently from the approach of some boot camp commandant.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Helene Cooper, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
The investigation, closed in January 2020 during Trump’s first administration, was not voluntarily disclosed to Congress or the public by the Coast Guard until 2023, as it had been withheld by the service’s commandant at the time, Adm. Karl Schultz.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
Fagan did not serve as commandant during that period but has testified about it twice.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2025
So all of that encouragement hits me differently from the approach of some boot camp commandant.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Commandant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commandant. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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