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commander

[kuh-man-der, -mahn-] / kəˈmæn dər, -ˈmɑn- /


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It did not provide evidence for the claim and the commander was not among the dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

He washed out—“See, you don’t know how to do this,” Rosenfeld told him—but, again, out of respect for the commander, he sent Woodward to the editor of a weekly newspaper in Montgomery County, Maryland.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

More than 500 of its soldiers remain in Russian captivity, according to Azov commander Denys Prokopenko.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Capt. Ryan A. Vienna, commander of the Crescenta Valley Station, credited the fire department with extinguishing “a potentially disastrous fire that could have affected all LA County residents.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

Mom was in the same boat, although she was too busy with me and being the commander of the entire Academy to mess around with recreational simulations.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The military has been central to Museveni's hold on power, making the loyalties of senior commanders particularly important as succession questions intensify.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Others see the arrests as evidence of an anti-corruption drive in which senior commanders are held to account.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Now, most Salvadoran troops will operate under their own commanders through a bilateral pact with the Haitian government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

On Saturday, North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un had urged his military to become the strongest in the world at a two-day meeting of company commanders in Pyongyang last week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

From then on, even in the bloodiest periods of the war, the two commanders would arrange truces to exchange prisoners.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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