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comptroller

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


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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

The state comptroller reported in 2022 that only 57% of New York City high school graduates in the class of 2019 were “college ready.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

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

It also includes signatures from treasurers or comptrollers from Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015

Then the King, who had supervened from nowhere, the magic production of chamberlains and comptrollers.

From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett


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