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administration

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


NOUN
period during which a particular human group is in power
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The administration said it would put in place alternative curbs—but 18 months later, it has yet to do so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

“I am seriously hopeful and maybe naive about this, that the administration just hears that there is widespread opposition on the political left and the political right and decides to withdraw the regulation,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

It said potential applications in South Africa included healthcare, education, criminal justice, public administration and public procurement.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has fought regularly with Lutnick throughout the administration, threw Lutnick directly under the bus on Friday.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026

Diana was the last student anyone would have reported to the administration, and yet she was the time bomb that had been waiting to go off.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

Successive council administrations have shown a "lack of ambition" in making the most of the "fantastic resource" that was discovered, says one of the area's Senedd members.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

"North Korea's belief that independently advancing its nuclear arsenal, regardless of changes in US administrations or political parties, was the right and strategically sound decision will be further reinforced," Lim said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

The bank, Zhejiang Chouzhou Commercial Bank, was flagged internally by U.S. officials during both the Biden and Trump administrations for facilitating transactions that appeared designed to evade sanctions, former officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Balliet worked for various administrations, including Trump’s first, before retiring in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“What I had in my safe at Rand,” Ellsberg would later recall, “was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents and their administrations over twenty-three years.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin


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