bureau
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County sheriff’s recruitment and training facility, a special enforcement bureau, multiple sheriff’s stations and L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
In a report in July, the PIJ claimed the bureau had received a complaint alleging US intelligence believed top Malawi military personnel may have helped to secretly funnel heavy weaponry to Sudan.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Some found out via the news that their personal information might’ve been compromised, NPR reports, and aren’t sure how the bureau will protect them if vengeful criminals get their hands on it.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
The average new-car buyer who financed in the second quarter borrowed $43,610 at 6.35% over 69.5 months, bringing their monthly payment to $765, according to the credit bureau Experian.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The White brothers were part of a small contingent of frontier lawmen who were known inside the bureau as the Cowboys.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Proponents of the measure say the current system of overseeing public works is ineffective because responsibility is spread among multiple officials, commissions, agencies and bureaus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Prior to the Times, Emma was a reporter with the Financial Times where she covered economics before moving to work in the Brussels and Berlin bureaus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Months later, he signed AB 238, a Harabedian bill that provided for 12 months of mortgage relief and banned late fees, foreclosures and negative reports to credit bureaus for homeowners who receive it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The company said it alerted the collection agency in question as well as the credit bureaus to the mistake.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
We still had our beds and chairs and bureaus and dining-room furniture, so we could get along, but even so, the house was bare and echoey.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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Guests were seen hugging, making calls, texting friends and loved ones, and their news bureaux.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
"Incidentally, we have also studied enemy weapons quite well, which were taken as trophies and dismantled to the last screw at our military construction bureaux," Medvedev added.
From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2023
In-store travel money bureaux, which are located in more than 100 stores, are unaffected.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2021
She mastered the technique, and set up her own lacquerware workshop in Paris in 1910, producing screens, chairs, tables, bureaux, beds and dressing tables for some of the city’s richest clients.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2020
Here in my own bureaux, under my very eyes, the plan of it has been sketched out and designed.
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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