commander in chief
Example Sentences
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C: Maybe we should expect more from someone serving as president and commander in chief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Under the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act, if a president dies in office, the vice president immediately becomes president and commander in chief.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Mike Makowsky’s dramatic miniseries “Death by Lightning” faithfully preserves the stirring rhetoric of the man who would become America’s 20th commander in chief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Ahmad Vahidi, commander in chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is shaping Iran’s hard-line stance in negotiations to end the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
“This particular Butterfly was modeled after a real one caught by our commander in chief about eighteen years ago. He was one of the first members of Mayhem we ever caught.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
