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officer

[aw-fuh-ser, of-uh-] / ˈɔ fə sər, ˈɒf ə- /




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Chief financial officer Park Soon-cheol told an earnings call the company expects "unprecedented growth in memory demand in 2027, driven by accelerating competition to build AI infrastructure and the expansion of personal AI agents".

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Safety and efficacy aren’t a nice-to-have; they are required,” Fred Mills, the chief policy officer of Americans for Safe and Effective Medicines, wrote in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The interior minister said he had visited the injured police officer, who was reportedly doing well and did not need hospital care for his wounds.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

He recently was named chief content officer at Netflix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

If it was a Cocoon, and I was pretty positive it was, he might already be taking it straight to a security officer, and I was done for.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

In decades past, independent reports have found that the LAPD’s investigations of domestic violence allegations against its officers have often fallen short.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Police said about 14,000 officers, as well as soldiers, had been deployed to keep a lid on the demonstrations in Jakarta.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

AFP saw pushing and shoving between front-row protesters and officers trying to keep the surging crowd away from Jakarta's central Bundaran HI public square, which is surrounded by businesses and embassies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Brand, 51, was interviewed four times between 2023 and 2025 by officers.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

As one senior Morgan Stanley executive put it, “The risk officers came back from the stress test looking very upset.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Our new armies are officered by classes of society who are new to the job.

From Time Magazine Archive

The leading company, officered by a Major and two Captains, pushed through the blizzard, attained the summit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Younger brothers Bob and Wilky went off to war and officered with distinction.

From Time Magazine Archive

Admittedly, pacification is lagging woefully, and the South's army, officered largely by opportunists or languid political appointees, is a major weakness.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is well officered, Captain Myers being its commander, Lieutenant Pollard, first lieutenant, and Lieutenant Reese, second lieutenant.

From Life Gleanings by T. J. Macon

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

General Arthur, by special request of Governor Morgan, resumed his duties as quartermaster-general and established a system of recruiting and officering the new levies, which proved wonderfully successful.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various

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 Edward Mandell House

A report which the Secretary of the Navy is preparing on the subject, to be laid before Congress, will shew at the same time the progress made in officering and manning these ships.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 4: James Madison by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson


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