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administration

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


NOUN
period during which a particular human group is in power
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Bourdeaux said she’s not expecting much on that front, noting the Trump administration has failed to put out a traditional budget proposal with detailed projections.

From MarketWatch Sep. 20, 2026

Then followed a particularly dark and turbulent period in the club's history featuring points deductions and a stint in administration.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

The AP sued the administration, and that litigation remains ongoing.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

Just days after Golding led Ole Miss to an upset win over Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, Grove Collective and administration leaders met with Chambliss and Lacy between 1 and 4 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Mrs. Torrance was at the church, but what if the less-invested administration got wind of it beforehand?

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

EXCLUSIVE: The act’s failure to progress leaves regulation of the cryptocurrency industry in the hands of government agencies and vulnerable to interpretation as administrations change, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The more than 600-page legislation would have divided oversight largely between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, replacing a regulatory patchwork that has shifted between administrations.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

In the quarter of a century since the attacks, through several city administrations, officials have refused to release the municipal files that show what the city knew and when it knew it.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

The briefs - many still heavily redacted - were created during both the Clinton and Bush administrations.

From BBC Sep. 11, 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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