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bureau

[byoor-oh] / ˈbjʊər oʊ /




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Walden Siew, CFO Journal bureau chief, and I booked a meeting with Stansbury to get his take, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The letters appear to have been sent to state election offices and related locations, the bureau said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The city’s public works team and its Parks, Recreation and Marine bureau were working to secure it, putting up sandbags and rebuilding the berm to stop water intrusion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Manfred D, who was Hanning's bureau chief and remained in the BND until this year, is charged with aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

There were dirty shoes in the corner, medical books beside the bed, pictures on the bureau.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

International bureaus are expected to be the first place where CNN and Skydance’s CBS News are expected to consolidate resources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

One long-shot strategy: turn the government bureaus that handle marriage paperwork into swoon-worthy destinations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Your accounts with the credit bureaus “were” or “had been” frozen?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s the matching bedspreads, the night tables, the lamps, the bureaus, the doubleness of everything in their room, that gives me this impression.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Guests were seen hugging, making calls, texting friends and loved ones, and their news bureaux.

From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026

Last year Russian state media claimed that RT had seven bureaux in Africa, although this cannot be independently verified.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

"Incidentally, we have also studied enemy weapons quite well, which were taken as trophies and dismantled to the last screw at our military construction bureaux," Medvedev added.

From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2023

She mastered the technique, and set up her own lacquerware workshop in Paris in 1910, producing screens, chairs, tables, bureaux, beds and dressing tables for some of the city’s richest clients.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2020

Bureaux d’assistance exist in every commune, and are managed by the combined committees of the hospices and the bureaux de bienfaisance or by one of these in municipalities, where only one of those institutions exists.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various


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