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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

I asked Joe, the Journal’s media and entertainment reporter based in the Los Angeles bureau, to put these cuts into context.

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

He zealously implemented the reforms requested by Stone that furthered his own desire to remake the bureau into a modern force.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

CNN and CBS News are expected to consolidate some of their operations, such as its overseas bureaus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The companies would also have to sort through overlapping bureaus, talent contracts and questions over how much of their editorial operations could be shared while maintaining the distinct identities of the two news outlets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

We still had our beds and chairs and bureaus and dining-room furniture, so we could get along, but even so, the house was bare and echoey.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

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

In another measure intended to curb foreign-currency trading, Nigeria has closed thousands of bureaux de change.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024

Foreign bureaux and copy desks have shut down, and thousands of editors and reporters have been laid off, among them hundreds of critics.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2016

As clerk in one of the government bureaux, I had for chief a gentleman who never sat down except on one of those round leather cushions which facilitate respiration.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock


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