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Jason M. Blazakis, a professor of practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, was director of the State Department’s Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office in the Bureau of Counterterrorism from 2008 to 2018.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Designations like Avi Kwa Ame, she explained, could help travelers see that America’s beloved national parks and Indigenous sacred sites are essentially two sides of the same coin.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

When it comes to U.S. neutrality laws, Jason Blazakis, a senior research fellow at the Soufan Center and a former director of the Counterterrorism Terrorism Finance and Designations Office, at the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022

Designations and ranking systems that take cleanliness and safety into account could become the norm in the hospitality industry.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2020

Designations like 'Mrs General ——,' 'Mrs Captain ——,' 'Mrs Dr ——,' which were fifty years ago not uncommon, were always improper.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various