officer
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"It's a bit of an experiment," says Jan Knowlson, biodiversity officer for the South Downs National Park.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Dr. Miceli is chief medical officer at Do No Harm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"We're just kind of nervous," said Letisha Lucas, a 33-year-old Canadian correctional programme officer, visiting Madrid with a friend, Lindsay.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
He wore the mustache in honor of his father, Alan, a longtime police officer who also taught at Long Beach State before retiring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The National Guard officer at the table said, “The island flooded. It’s gone.”
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
On Instagram, Sakhi posted photos and videos of police assaults and detentions alongside reels mocking officers standing beside them.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Parking enforcement officers in Austin write tickets, which are civil citations, against a specific vehicle, not the driver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
More than 2,200 police officers had been deployed for this year’s Pride celebrations before Saturday night’s attack.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Lines of police officers were combing the ground near the car in the search for clues.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
They didn’t take kindly to people pretending to be officers of the law.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
In an army largely officered by the least promising sons of wealthy families, he was a standout taskmaster and a social flop.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons.
From Time Magazine Archive
These Circles are groups of 20, organized by counties, each officered only by a secretary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imprisoned for two months by Kasavubu's central government, he had won release by promising Strongman Joseph Mobutu that he would merge his 11,600 army, officered by 634 Europeans, with that of the central government.
From Time Magazine Archive
The enemy, among whom was Hampden, were both better officered and better disciplined than heretofore, but they could not stand before the charge of the terrible Prince.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva
But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Army before the Mutiny.—The officering and recruiting of the three armies were in all essentials similar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
He was empowered to "receive stores and employ such Continental Navy officers and call the number of men necessary for officering, manning, victualing and equipping the boats."
From The Story of Commodore John Barry by Griffin, Martin I. J. (Martin Ignatius Joseph)
Unquestionably the Russian war did us the service of thoroughly exposing the rottenness of our military system so far as concerned the officering of the army.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
Through one of his agents he succeeded in officering it with well-known Southerners, who knew only that part of the plan which contemplated an increase in prices, and were in sympathy with it.
From Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 by House, Edward Mandell
