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commissioner

[kuh-mish-uh-ner] / kəˈmɪʃ ə nər /
NOUN
agent
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The Southern Section, under commissioner Mike West, went out of its way to try to catch those breaking transfer rules last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

In one county, for instance, an agricultural commissioner fined a farmer $2,000 for failing to provide safety training for workers who applied pesticides in fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The suspended deputy police commissioner, who was detained on Monday, has made no comment.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Chris Slevin, who visited Beijing in July as a commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said Chinese officials peppered his delegation with questions about the bilateral AI dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

During a visit to the Rad Lab in November 1946, AEC commissioner Lewis Strauss, a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, pulled him aside to offer him the institute’s directorship.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

MacPherson said county agricultural commissioners have discretion in deciding which enforcement tools — warning letters, written notices, fines — to use in a given situation, depending on the “nature and severity of the violation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

In one instance, the report says, the two commissioners even wrote a letter complaining to the chief secretary, the top bureaucrat in the Indian government.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

In 1989, he took office on the county board of commissioners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

While similar figures for the UK aren't collated, Dawson fears a shrinking television industry in the UK will make it harder for commissioners to make LGBTQ+ stories.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

But one of his fellow seven commissioners, T. A. M. Craven, noted that the FCC should be cautious about censorship.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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