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commander in chief

NOUN
supreme commander
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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

But wars inevitably cost those who fight in them; ideally, the commander in chief would start them only after carefully weighing those costs.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 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

You could label it however you wanted to, but if the daughter of the first ever female commander in chief didn’t make it through, I would be a big fat failure.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin


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