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commander

[kuh-man-der, -mahn-] / kəˈmæn dər, -ˈmɑn- /


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It did not provide evidence for the claim and the commander was not among the dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

He washed out—“See, you don’t know how to do this,” Rosenfeld told him—but, again, out of respect for the commander, he sent Woodward to the editor of a weekly newspaper in Montgomery County, Maryland.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

More than 500 of its soldiers remain in Russian captivity, according to Azov commander Denys Prokopenko.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Capt. Ryan A. Vienna, commander of the Crescenta Valley Station, credited the fire department with extinguishing “a potentially disastrous fire that could have affected all LA County residents.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

But it hadn’t stuck, and because of that I’d failed the simulation again, and the daughter of the first-ever female commander in chief of the Glitch Academy wasn’t supposed to fail.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Others see the arrests as evidence of an anti-corruption drive in which senior commanders are held to account.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

The detention of one of the country's most prominent former commanders, Lt Gen Peter Elwelu, has brought the crackdown into sharper focus.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Now, most Salvadoran troops will operate under their own commanders through a bilateral pact with the Haitian government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

At a nearby residential complex, investigators found a radio with a list of call signs of junior commanders in airborne companies, including the head of a reconnaissance platoon: Uspekh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Our hoverplanes are initially ignored by the commanders in the Nut, because in the past they’ve been little more trouble than flies buzzing around a honeypot.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins


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