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agencies

NOUN
organization, often business-related
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Less than half of general-purpose law-enforcement agencies had acquired body cameras in 2016, and many hadn’t equipped front-line officers with them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, last month the US government said it was "considering participating in this litigation" after the BBC served subpoenas for information from a number of federal agencies.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

What do things look like at those agencies?

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a joint report with the NSA and FBI, among other agencies, warning of Russian cyber-threat activity.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 2026

In early 2007 Grant wrote a series of pieces suggesting that the rating agencies had abandoned their posts—that they were almost surely rating these CDOs without themselves knowing exactly what was inside them.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis



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