general
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The revelations triggered a joint investigation by dozens of states, which two years later resulted in a complaint filed by around 30 state attorneys general.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
“When you have a salary system in place as we do, every general manager is going to need to make mixed basketball and business decisions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
“The atmosphere that is here, the pride that everybody has in the school in general … it’s one of the most passionate alumni that you are going to have,” Knox said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
The volunteer service emphasied it was not criticising those it helped on Friday but rather was keen to highlight its general concerns.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
For more than the next one hundred years, the fate of the Hunley presented archaeologists, scholars, and the public in general with one of their greatest mysteries.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
The idea to accommodate Nazi generals in comfort to lure them into indiscretions was a "brilliantly devious strategy", Albano said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
There were also reports of parents bringing their petitions to Union Army generals stationed in Maryland.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Attorneys generals in 12 states last week filed a lawsuit to prevent the deal from going forward.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
There is a long tradition in Israel of former Israeli generals taking on Netanyahu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In the military, brilliant generals are said to possess "coup d’oeil”—which, translated from the French, means "power of the glance”: the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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