C.O.
Example Sentences
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Instead, it was “so many people screaming, screaming to talk to each other. Screaming for assistance: ‘Yo, C.O., my toilet flooded.
From Slate • May 19, 2025
“Bud” Adams Jr.; television executive and producer Roone Arledge; longtime Oilers/Titans scout C.O.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022
“A C.O. had told me that I was never going home and that really got to me,” he said of one occasion.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021
The C.O. sat glued to this chair, looking bored.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2020
But at the end of the year, the authorities concluded that they wanted a different atmosphere on the island, and Colonel Piet Badenhorst was named the new C.O. of Robben Island.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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