commissary
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In 2010, Lucas formally proposed a museum on the former commissary site at San Francisco’s Crissy Field, but the Presidio Trust opened the location to competing proposals and ultimately rejected all three finalists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Men would also scroll YouTube videos, partake in online sports betting and convince women on the outside to date them, sometimes seemingly to get those women to wire money into their commissary accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
According to contemporaneous accounts, German prisoners of war in U.S. camps were sometimes offered Cokes at the commissary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
When a man from the commissary ran in with an order to evacuate the building, Blaschum went upstairs to find her flying partners.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
It was on the early side for lunch, and most of the small tables in the commissary were empty.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
In Hollywood, studios tended to lay claim to nearby restaurants almost as extensions of their own commissaries, with cocktail privileges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Per the WSJ video, the commissaries have already started working with Warabeya, a supplier to 7-Eleven Japan.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
Prisons run by state and federal governments contract out many services to private firms — like health care, transport, meals, telecommunication, commissaries and uniforms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
They stated, furthermore, that they were not being paid in real money but in scrip, which was good only to buy Virginia ham in the company commissaries.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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