official

Example Sentences

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The official had heard about the bug bounty Brundage got from the Dutch government years ago and had a question: “What’s a good address to mail you a t-shirt, and what’s your size?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“They were just artificially making it lower,” the administration official said.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

"We are grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army," an unnamed senior defence official told CBS.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

On Thursday, the U.K. government released a statement saying that its pharmaceutical companies wouldn’t be tariffed—an assertion the Trump official confirmed, saying that U.K. drugmakers had already committed to invest in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In 1973, a Turkish official made an exploratory dive to check out a report that sponge divers had brought handfuls of brilliantly colored glass from the bottom of a bay called Serçe Limani.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler