commander
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The IDF said it had targeted an acting Hamas commander.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
After failing to reach agreement with the SBU officers, they called their superiors, and Timur’s commander arrived on the scene with more soldiers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Gen. Ahmed Abdullahi Sheikh, a former commander of Somali special forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Local police commander Colonel Jimmy Belalcazar identified the victim as a 23-year-old Venezuelan man.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
A career military man, commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, he’d seen plenty of aerial reconnaissance photos.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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A former senior Navy officer and a retired Navy operations officer told me that past commanders have occasionally filed statements warning of risk—similar to the non-concur notes.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Like many in town, Deyres suspects regional fire commanders sacrificed Le Porge to save houses of the wealthy nearby on the Cap Ferret sandbar peninsula: “I’m not afraid to say it: We were abandoned.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Today, gridlined streets retain the names of American presidents and commanders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Not all of those who are trained want to stay back, she said, but those that do receive orders from trained crew commanders, including on when it's time to leave.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Near midnight on the night of September 30, 1962, four Soviet submarine commanders walked through thick fog along a wooden pier on Sayda Bay, an inlet of the Barents Sea.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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