comptroller
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Women's team Gotham FC this week recorded the biggest turnout for a women's sporting event in New York history, city comptroller Mark Levine said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Brandon Patty, a 44-year-old clerk and comptroller in St John's County, Florida and a Navy Reserve commander, is one such American who believes passionately that the Dream is alive and working.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
They include state assembly member Claire Valdez, former city comptroller Brad Lander and community organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Schlossberg’s inexperience and total lack of punctiliousness would make him a horrible candidate for mayor, president, governor, even comptroller.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
The original word, controller, is more likely to be used in business, and the fancier one, comptroller, in government.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Elsewhere in the state, voters are electing county executives and comptrollers, including on Long Island where Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, a Democrat, is running for re-election against the county’s Republican comptroller John Kennedy.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
Such midyear budget adjustments by the board, common in years when revenue was lower than expected, have “enabled countless governors, comptrollers and treasurers to actively manage the state’s finances,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2017
Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017
It also includes signatures from treasurers or comptrollers from Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015
A letter addressed to the comptrollers and other customs officers had informed them that their services would be discontinued after January 5th, 1855.
From Wilmot and Tilley by James Hannay