abandoned
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The controller is the state’s fiscal watchdog, responsible for auditing government agencies, administering payroll for state employees and reuniting abandoned assets with their owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
A trio of glass panels removed from an abandoned building in Ciudad Juárez still bears the missing-persons posters that were hung there years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"These audits must identify broken streetlights, overgrown public spaces, abandoned buildings, unsafe transport routes and facilities, poorly secured parks, and other conditions that place women at risk."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The area has been a focus of a government crackdown on illegal mining, with soldiers deployed alongside police to tackle criminal networks operating around abandoned mine shafts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
No, he turns into an abandoned parking lot and stops the car haphazardly between two spaces.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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