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commission

[kuh-mish-uhn] / kəˈmɪʃ ən /


NOUN
group working together toward goal
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On Tuesday, a spokesman for the European Commission, the body’s executive branch, said the commission had “expressed concerns” about both the project and the environmental impacts of an Albanian law meant to attract large investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

"The European Commission has decided that OpenAI and some of the largest companies in the world can use the paid-for WhatsApp Business product for free", it said in a statement.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

In March, the Police Commission asked the department to report back on what information the company’s scanners collect and share.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Mark Jamison is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on how technology affects the economy and on telecommunications and Federal Communications Commission issues.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

He managed to track down a copy of the actual scientific paper and to persuade scientists at the US Atomic Energy Commission to explain to him what it meant.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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