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public official

NOUN
civil servant
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NOUN
government employee
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Caller IDs for bogus calls appear as legitimate agency numbers, emails carry official seals and accurate agency language, and in more advanced attacks, AI-generated deepfake audio and video replicate a public official, Dressler says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Meanwhile, oil industry executive Olatimbo Ayinde, 54, denies one count of bribery relating to Alison-Madueke and a separate count of bribery of a foreign public official.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Sampath is additionally charged with aiding and abetting a public official to have a financial interest in such a contract.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

He can, and presumably will, mount a plausible argument that the disciplinary counsel cannot sanction a public official based on its own subjective view of what crosses the constitutional line.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

His father, who had been a public official, ended up running a “teahouse” in Hiroshima—something like a cabaret.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston




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