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comptroller

[kuhn-troh-ler, komp-troh-ler] / kənˈtroʊ lər, kɒmpˈtroʊ lər /


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That’s the power of positive thinking about some surprising truth-telling about the city’s public pension mess from Illinois comptroller Susana Mendoza.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 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

Des Moines and Barcelona are comparable in latitude. comptroller.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

In a private ceremony before the inauguration, Lierman handed Franchot the first of her “challenge coins,” an engraved memento Maryland’s comptrollers have given out for decades.

From Washington Post Jan. 16, 2023

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

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

The list of signatures on a copy of the letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal includes Thomas P. DiNapoli and Scott M. Stringer, the comptrollers of New York state and New York City, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2015

For this purpose there are assessors, collectors, treasurers, comptrollers or auditors, and various other officials.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner




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