lieutenant
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Five days later, “The Mark Levin Show” ran a conversation with Dan Patrick, the state’s lieutenant governor.
From Salon • May 13, 2026
Travis Haines, a lieutenant colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces, told the BBC he believes the boost in recruitment is in large part tied to the military reducing bureaucratic hurdles.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
Mark West, a retired lieutenant commander who ran beach planning for the special-operations force from 2009 to 2011, said the base dealt with sewage even then.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
“California’s next lieutenant governor needs to be a proven leader who turns big ideas into real results, and that’s exactly what I did as mayor,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Instead, for the next two hours, again and again he led the firefighter back over the events of that day in an attempt to document precisely what the lieutenant did and didn’t know.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing lieutenant
English Words Derived from French, List 1
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National Spelling Bee '14: Prelims Round 2
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Commonly Misspelled Words, List 6
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