lieutenant
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The lieutenant governor currently serves as acting governor when the governor leaves the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Before Inouye took an interest, Congress didn’t even know our companies existed,” a longtime Loui lieutenant wrote in a 1998 op-ed.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Rita called one of the chief investigators, Bobby Bowen, a sheriff’s lieutenant, and urged him to speak with Roebuck, who was able to talk now that a tube had been removed from his mouth.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
According to Flores, he began surreptitiously recording his colleagues after their inappropriate commentary got so bad that one day a police lieutenant warned them that if they continued, they would “bring down the whole department.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Once the South took control of the submarine, Confederate navy lieutenant John Payne volunteered to be its captain.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Mohammed, also known as "KSM," was considered one of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants before he was captured in March 2003 in Pakistan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
He was reluctant to report the wrongdoing, he said, because one of the lieutenants had boasted that he knew a lot of people in Internal Affairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
One of O'Neill's most trusted lieutenants, he's contracted until 2030 but reports have suggested a potential return to Spain, so just how important is he to Celtic?
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
He often delegates difficult conversations to trusted lieutenants.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
He thought: body not much good but the mind works well. l\vo young lieutenants sat down near him, chewing on com dodgers.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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