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comptroller

[kuhn-troh-ler, komp-troh-ler] / kənˈtroʊ lər, kɒmpˈtroʊ lər /


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Parents have to earn $334,000 to be able to comfortably afford child care for a 2-year-old, according to an analysis from the city’s comptroller.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Women's team Gotham FC this week recorded the biggest turnout for a women's sporting event in New York history, city comptroller Mark Levine said.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

Brandon Patty, a 44-year-old clerk and comptroller in St John's County, Florida and a Navy Reserve commander, is one such American who believes passionately that the Dream is alive and working.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Meanwhile, Brad Lander, a former NYC comptroller, defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, while democratic socialist Assembly member Claire Valdez won the primary for an open seat representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2026

“I would thank you for precise information on this head, for I have not been able to get any,” he wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

In a private ceremony before the inauguration, Lierman handed Franchot the first of her “challenge coins,” an engraved memento Maryland’s comptrollers have given out for decades.

From Washington Post Jan. 16, 2023

On the plus side, the committee of two current and two former state and New York City comptrollers attached some important strings to lawmakers’ first pay raise in 20 years.

From Washington Times Dec. 19, 2018

Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.

From Slate Feb. 27, 2017

It also includes signatures from treasurers or comptrollers from Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2015

The President may go into the treasury, among the auditors and comptrollers, and direct them how to settle every man's account; what abatements to make from one, what additions to another.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel




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