officer
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“What is being sold on the black market is not a medicine — it is entirely unverified, unapproved and not worth the risk,” David Hyman, Lilly’s chief medical officer, said in a news release.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Crowley, the chief executive officer of the state's Milwaukee County, posted on X to say it was time to "get to work".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Lowe’s executive Chandhu Nair is joining the company as Target’s first chief AI officer, while Target executive Purvi Shah will become senior vice president of user experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
One probation officer told the BBC the upcoming releases had put him and his colleagues into "a state of panic".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
I assumed that was why the officer had shown up—to find out why I was absent.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
On Tuesday, probation officers voted in favour of strike action over the scheme, with probation union Napo saying 90% of its members had backed potential industrial action.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The judge ruled that officers have repeatedly violated previous court orders that allow the weapon to be used only to subdue protesters who pose a threat of violence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
In 1982, East Germany’s feared and formidable secret police, the Stasi, used a creative-writing class to train its intelligence officers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Probation officers help former prisoners with housing, employment and access to benefits once in the community, and help protect the public by assessing the risk of further offending.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The officers found her young teenage sons, Ferdie and Henry Jr., well dressed, clean, and fed.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have an equal chance at an officer's commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
For months Mongokuo has had a de facto government, headed by Prince Teh, together with an army of some 10,000 Mongolians and Manchukuoans officered and commanded by Japanese.
From Time Magazine Archive
Younger brothers Bob and Wilky went off to war and officered with distinction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was the Titanic sufficiently and efficiently officered and manned?
From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by British Government
But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering.
From Time Magazine Archive
She begins on the right principle by officering her colonies with her best men, naval and military.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The essential difference between the German soldiers and our own is in the officering and training, and it is admirably expressed by Private Burrell, Northumberland Fusiliers.
From Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters by James Alexander Kilpatrick
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 Martin I. J. (Martin Ignatius Joseph) Griffin
Reaching the Eagle, Rooke, who had now the command of the attacking party, rapidly made his dispositions for despatching the flotilla—the officering of the various fireships being at his disposition.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
