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administration

[ad-min-uh-stray-shuhn] / ædˌmɪn əˈstreɪ ʃən /


NOUN
period during which a particular human group is in power
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"A lot of that is likely due to some of the manoeuvres that we've seen the Trump administration employ over the last couple of weeks," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

US Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that software giant Microsoft was being suspended from a key visa program as part of a fraud crackdown by President Donald Trump's administration.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Microsoft defended the use of H-1B and said in a statement that it looked forward to sharing additional information with the administration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Gabriel Perez, an aide who operated Trump’s teleprompter, recently left the administration after revelations that he placed lucrative bets on the prediction market Kalshi based on the content of the president’s speeches.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

From the early days of his administration, Kennedy leaned hard on America's spies.

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

The health ministry says it has intensified measures to contain the spread, with a joint response involving county administrations, humanitarian partners and others.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“GBI’s standards remain staunchly nonpartisan through six presidential administrations, with a mission of supporting public lands management and the agencies charged with that mission,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The other concerns the EPA’s broader authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act, which could prevent future administrations from regulating power-plant emissions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

It is unclear why the CDC and other federal agencies across two administrations have failed to publicly respond to the increase in deaths despite having access to the same information ProPublica analyzed.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

“What I had in my safe at Rand,” Ellsberg would later recall, “was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents and their administrations over twenty-three years.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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