commander

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The city owes more than its name to the first commander in chief; George Washington encouraged the French developer Pierre Charles L’Enfant to design a capital that would symbolize the nation.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

General Abdallah Noureddine, another senior commander supervising operations near the village of El Ezzeiat, told AFP the manoeuvres were "a message for our friends and our foes".

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

Federal officials said Al-Saadi worked closely with Qasem Soleimani, the longtime commander of the IRGC-QF who was killed during a U.S. airstrike in 2020.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied claims Haddad, the commander of the group's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, had been killed.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Galya Dzhunkovskaya married her regimental commander, Valentin Markov; Yevdokia Bershanskaya married Andrey Molotov, the commander of a men’s regiment who’d flown close to the 46th Guards during the war.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein