commissary
Example Sentences
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The state-of-the-art complex has five sound stages, offices and other proper movie studio features such as a mill, commissary and base camp.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026
Their extra room became the commissary, to use an old Hollywood term.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Building 178, originally opened in 1942, had included a bowling alley, commissary, tailor shop and even a disco.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
To make way for the Campus Project, NBCUniversal demolished the old commissary, a sound-mixing facility and other structures.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
Once, when I escorted some inmates to the commissary and we were all hanging around in the hall waiting for a gate to open, two female officers fixed their attention on Sam.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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