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[uh-fish-uhl] / əˈfɪʃ əl /




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World Cup final official Darren Cann called Martinez's actions "inexplicable".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Huang could be beneficial to an intelligence official keen on getting a sense of Trump’s thinking on U.S. strategy as it relates to chips, according to Bresnick.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

The company also gave its first official estimate of the total monetary impact: $6.3 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

We conclude from our findings that snake envenoming is a public health crisis on a far greater scale than official statistics have shown.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Everything went black and our first official partner mission had begun.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Long Beach has more than six miles of public beach where the water quality is monitored by health officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Berlin is in contact with officials in France and Italy amid fears that radicals from overseas could seek to join the German protests.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Researchers with UCLA’s Voting Rights Project examined a list of 20,930 people identified by federal officials as potentially ineligible voters.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has put his cabinet ministers and other senior government officials through military training, saying armed forces discipline can help build stronger leaders and advance the country's development.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Soviet officials considered the entire episode a national humiliation.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin


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