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comptroller

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


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Some Jewish leaders accused him of breaking a pledge he made during last year’s comptroller race to restart buying Israeli bonds and said it could add further fuel to a rise in antisemitism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The comptroller, who serves as the city’s fiscal hawk, said in a social-media post on Thursday that politics didn’t influence his decision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

“I would thank you for precise information on this head, for I have not been able to get any,” he wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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

On the plus side, the committee of two current and two former state and New York City comptrollers attached some important strings to lawmakers’ first pay raise in 20 years.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2018

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

Notaries are to take only the half of what they had formerly, as well as comptrollers.

From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by John Durand


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