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agency

[ey-juhn-see] / ˈeɪ dʒən si /
NOUN
organization, often business-related
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Marais and her team just secured roughly $500,000 from a U.K. research agency to test the use of satellite data to track rocket exhaust, having also tried GoFundMe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Not every agency is ready to call it, though.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

South Africa is one of Africa's largest economies and hosts more than three million foreigners, just over five percent of its population, according to the country's statistics agency.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Representatives from the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office attended Samsung’s headquarters in Suwon while probing trades between 2022 and 2024 associated with its acquisition of Rainbow Robotics, according to Yonhap, the local news agency.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Three minutes after the quake began, the agency issued a tsunami warning predicting waves up to 20 feet high in Miyagi prefecture and 10 feet in Iwate and Fukushima.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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