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commission

[kuh-mish-uhn] / kəˈmɪʃ ən /


NOUN
group working together toward goal
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Zimbabwe's anti-corruption commission investigated allegations surrounding contracts awarded to South African company Ren-Form but closed the inquiry in 2025, saying it had found no evidence linking Chivayo or the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to wrongdoing.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters described the disciplinary case and the decision by an independent commission as the "most significant in Premier League history".

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Measure G governance reform task force is setting everything up, but officials realized that for true independence, the seven-member commission and the compliance office must be permanently enshrined in the county charter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It said the ruling recognised that the commission, Campbell and others had been "subject to sophisticated deception".

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Determined to get as close to the front lines as possible, William asked the United States Army for a commission to serve as a code breaker overseas.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Quan said the reform is potentially helpful but said he knows of no instances in which commissions blocked an audit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“The monetization path for Muse, including ads, subscriptions and commissions, seems unlikely to be material before 2028,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Brokers are profiting from commissions as buyers purchase financial derivatives to hedge against wild price swings in jet fuel, diesel and gasoline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Instead, the Tribune tracked the grants by reviewing the vehicle authority’s meeting records, as well as documents, agendas and discussions from 101 city councils and county commissions that approved or discussed Flock-related grants.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

“If you’re not getting commissions, Becker’s stiffing you.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

The inquest heard that a report commissioned after Cahan's death identified some of the serious failings investigated by the coroner.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

She was the point of the painting, as if she or someone powerful had commissioned it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

So the museum commissioned Oscar-winning makeup artist and sculptor Mike Hill, fresh off his work on Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” to research and create a full-body Mrs. Bates instead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

It’s appropriate that Opera Montana’s first commissioned work is Zach Redler’s “A River Runs Through It,” which opened last week at the Ellen Theatre here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

He had seen the sketches and portraits that his mother commissioned back then and knew that, once upon a time, he had been handsome.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The commissioning programme was started by the RSA in 1998 and the first work, Mark Wallinger's Ecce Homo, went up the following year.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

For the remainder of its three-month commissioning period, scientists and engineers will carefully test and calibrate Roman's instruments.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

At the time she was laid to rest without a grave maker, but this month officials memorialized Raker by commissioning a permanent marker at her burial site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The deployment of eight low Earth orbit replenishment satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral marks the beginning of in-orbit commissioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Leonardo is now in Rome, where a new pope from the Medici family—Pope Leo X—is busy bankrupting the Vatican by commissioning massive new works of art.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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