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C.O.

NOUN
conscientious objector
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co
NOUN
carbon monoxide
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NOUN
commanding officer
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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

The C.O. sat glued to this chair, looking bored.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2020

Over time, draft boards came to resemble freshman philosophy seminars in their attempts to decide who did and did not qualify for C.O. status.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

And she rang her C.O. to let him know she had been asked to taxi one of her usual passengers from RAF Special Duties to an “Undisclosed Location.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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