behest
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He was just 38 years old when, at Reagan’s behest, he was appointed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
In 1983, at the behest of President Ronald Reagan, he chaired the bipartisan commission that was tasked with rescuing Social Security from financial collapse.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Danielle Allen’s excellent book “Radical Duke” builds on these discoveries and makes a further claim: that Paine, and a cohort of other radical writers, wrote at the behest of a singular, powerful aristocratic patron.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
He gave the example of a hot trend in "agentic" AI in which digital assistants handle computer tasks independently at the behest of people.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
Michael Kammerer, a senior, played the reformed convict Jean Valjean, and he was among those in the cast who, at Volpe’s behest, had gone trash-picking for elements of the set.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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