officer
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Keith Lerner, chief investment officer at Truist Advisory Services had been negative on gold for most of 2026, but after Wednesday’s developments he upgraded his recommendation to neutral citing several factors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
In response, wildlife teams started to vaccinate birds in the colony this week, said James Todd, chief biodiversity officer for the state of Victoria in which the island lies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
GE HealthCare, the Chicago-based medical imaging and diagnostic company, has hired William Grogan as its new chief financial officer, plucking the executive from water solutions company Xylem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Andrius Banevicius, the public information officer for Connecticut's Department of Correction, recounted how Smith used to feed the birds while in Osborn prison, earning him the nickname The Birdman of Osborn.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Before I board the plane, an immigration officer peers inside my suitcase.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
It was contrasted with a picture released by the court on Thursday, in which a worn, white-haired Xu stood unsmiling, flanked by two police officers as he faced a panel of judges.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Met said no arrests had yet been made but officers believed the fire may have been started deliberately.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Flores lodged a complaint with the LAPD’s inspector general’s office and has said he hoped the officers he taped making inappropriate remarks would face discipline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Navy has a large number of supply officers.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
In order to keep Franklin’s officers and men from succumbing to boredom during their long winter months in the ice, the Erebus and the Terror each had libraries containing some three thousand books.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons.
From Time Magazine Archive
These Circles are groups of 20, organized by counties, each officered only by a secretary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Younger brothers Bob and Wilky went off to war and officered with distinction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our new armies are officered by classes of society who are new to the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
The order of the Temple always had in its pay a large number of retainers, and of mercenary troops, both cavalry and infantry, which were officered by the knights.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison
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
A report which the Secretary of the Navy is preparing on the subject, to be laid before Congress, will shew at the same time the progress made in officering and manning these ships.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 4: James Madison by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
She begins on the right principle by officering her colonies with her best men, naval and military.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
