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department

[dih-pahrt-muhnt] / dɪˈpɑrt mənt /




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Prominent voices in Congress have been less shy than the influencer class about criticising the justice department.

From BBC

But the evidence is mounting that the department’s brass blew it, or, to borrow a phrase from Bass, “botched it.”

From Los Angeles Times

By the time firefighters arrived six minutes later, several structures — a mobile home, a carport, three vehicles, two other outbuildings and a large pine tree — were already aflame, the city department said in a release.

From Los Angeles Times

Fallingwater, the world-famous house over a waterfall at Bear Run in the Pennsylvania woods, completed in 1935 by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann, meets all of the criteria.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some 15 or more Heritage employees, including the leaders of three prominent policy departments, are jumping to the Advancing American Freedom foundation that the former Vice President established in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal