commissioner
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“It’s getting better,” said Marnie Gee, British Columbia’s film commissioner.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
In the denial, the patent commissioner scolded Hunt for allowing “his discovery to slumber” for so long, saying he submitted an application only to “strangle” someone else’s invention, presumably Howe’s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
"If I was commissioner, that's what I would do," said the 76-year-old American.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
“It is clear that the more you can do to save oil, especially diesel, especially jet fuel, the better we are off,” Dan Jørgensen, the EU’s energy commissioner, said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
In 1871, for example, the US commissioner of education published a report by Edward Jarvis on the “Relation of Education to Insanity.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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The Dawes Act
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