departments

Example Sentences

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None of the individuals were showing symptoms, the health departments said.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Last week, Canada’s Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne ordered government departments to remove policies that impede competition.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

In many departments, a steady stream of “countable” papers is valued more than the slower path to a smaller number of genuinely important studies.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

For decades, California had some of the strongest legal protections for law enforcement officers in the country, at times allowing those who engaged in serious misconduct to quietly quit and find jobs in other departments.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026

The paper explained that, in the 1990s, Wisconsin police departments were given nearly a hundred thousand pieces of military equipment.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander