affairs
Example Sentences
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On stage at a recent product event, Tan showed Carri off to an audience that included Indonesia’s economic affairs minister.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
He was constitutional affairs minister in the last apartheid government and went on to join the government of national unity formed in 1994 when Mandela became president.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Dustin Brighton, director of government affairs for the Coalition for Ticket Fairness, agreed that while the verdict is a landmark moment for fans, “it’s not the end of the road.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Maintaining a semblance of privacy is increasingly difficult in the age of social media, and how much we share with our unmarried partner about our financial affairs is on a need-to-know basis.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
I thought there would be more time for us to decide whether or not our awkward silence was a permanent state of affairs, to figure out how to move forward since we can’t move back.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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