departments

Example Sentences

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It brought together public funding for the royals into a single payment, replacing a mix of grants from a range of government departments.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

In researching how police departments use AI and how digital technologies operate in a democratic society, we have seen how quickly the shift from probabilistic prediction to operational certainty happens in practice.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Last week, Canada’s Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne ordered government departments to remove policies that impede competition.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

In many departments, a steady stream of “countable” papers is valued more than the slower path to a smaller number of genuinely important studies.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

The debate over Lawrence’s future at Berkeley climaxed at an acrimonious faculty conclave pitting the hard sciences, represented by Birge and Lewis, against the humanities and social sciences departments.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik