officer
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But history suggests that the stock-market rally “still deserves the benefit of the doubt,” according to Keith Lerner, chief investment officer at Truist Advisory Services.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
‘People in the U.S. need to wake up’: As a mortgage loan officer, I rejected applications from wealthy couples.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
A federal immigration officer shot and injured a person in New York City on Thursday, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The SBU has described Zhykovych in a statement only as a "former law enforcement officer".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Outside this building a florid-faced officer formed us into a double column and marched us across a broad parade ground.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“Some of the officers have also reported ‘feeling burned’ after touching their skin with the same gloves that were used to handle the chemical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Even when local law enforcement is working with election officials, officers are subject to the same voter intimidation restrictions as anybody else, Diaz said.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
She told officers she did not know the attacker and did not have any issues with people at school.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Prosecutors have issued 33 arrest warrants against customs officers and employees of the National Environment Agency over their alleged involvement in the scheme.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Neither set of officers wanted to get anywhere close to the mountain, but it would be better to escort people peacefully than face an angry mob.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Most piano companies are tight little family concerns, often officered by grandsons and great-grandsons of the founders, who look down their noses at the raucous upstarts of wind and string.
From Time Magazine Archive
Admittedly, pacification is lagging woefully, and the South's army, officered largely by opportunists or languid political appointees, is a major weakness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three weeks later they would return, clad in a motley array of khaki uniforms and armed with the weapons they had been taught to use in a crash program officered by Algerian "volunteers."
From Time Magazine Archive
The leading company, officered by a Major and two Captains, pushed through the blizzard, attained the summit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alsatians, it was thoroughly disorganized by the emigration or execution of the nobles who had officered it, and for long it was incapable of facing the hostile squadrons in the open.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the names had been entered came the question of uniforms, arms, officering, drilling, provisions.
From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai
General Arthur, by special request of Governor Morgan, resumed his duties as quartermaster-general and established a system of recruiting and officering the new levies, which proved wonderfully successful.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various
We will hold immediately an election of officers—and that's as pernicious a method of officering companies and regiments as can be imagined!
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
He was empowered to "receive stores and employ such Continental Navy officers and call the number of men necessary for officering, manning, victualing and equipping the boats."
From The Story of Commodore John Barry by Martin I. J. (Martin Ignatius Joseph) Griffin
