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administration

[ad-min-uh-strey-shuhn] / ædˌmɪn əˈstreɪ ʃən /


NOUN
period during which a particular human group is in power
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A 28-year-old White House lawyer named John Roberts—now the chief justice of the Supreme Court—wrote a memo for his bosses that agreed in part with the Carter administration position.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Negotiations toward that end have proved more challenging than the administration initially anticipated.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

But he added that the bank’s management team was “encouraged by the work the administration is doing to make capital rules more risk-based.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

The government said it would put the utility in administration "if that were to become necessary".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Faced with ongoing Indigenous resistance and continuous pressure from settlers, Washington’s administration negotiated the first of many treaties it would make with Indigenous nations.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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