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comptroller

[kuhn-troh-ler, komp-troh-ler] / kənˈtroʊ lər, kɒmpˈtroʊ lər /


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Even a former U.S. comptroller of the currency agrees.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Nathan Johnson also unseated state Sen. Don Huffines, a Dallas Republican that cycle; Johnson is now running for attorney general, and Huffines for comptroller.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Fewer Gen-Z and millennial renters have been able to break into the coveted housing stock, according to an analysis by the city comptroller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Fewer Gen-Z and millennial renters have been able to break into this coveted housing stock, according to an analysis by the city comptroller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

She says if I run for mayor she wants to be comptroller, of all things.”

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

In a private ceremony before the inauguration, Lierman handed Franchot the first of her “challenge coins,” an engraved memento Maryland’s comptrollers have given out for decades.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023

Elsewhere in the state, voters are electing county executives and comptrollers, including on Long Island where Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, a Democrat, is running for re-election against the county’s Republican comptroller John Kennedy.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2019

Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017

The list of signatures on a copy of the letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal includes Thomas P. DiNapoli and Scott M. Stringer, the comptrollers of New York state and New York City, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015

They are otherwise occupied, some in king’s matters, some are ambassadors, some of the privy council, some to furnish the court, some are lords of the parliament, some are presidents, and comptrollers of mints.

From Sermons on the Card by Henry Morley


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