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charge

[chahrj] / tʃɑrdʒ /










VERB
ask a price
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chargé
NOUN
chargé d'affaires
Synonyms


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Helping to lead the charge is Jessica Schumer, who has worked for Amazon for years and is the daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

The company is the first to charge for rides in its autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, dashboard or pedals.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

It has not been confirmed why he was detained, though he was released without charge.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Private lenders can charge fees for anything from the loan’s application and origination to late payments or deferment.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

She’d rallied and was back in charge at school now, and then some.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

As Petro was traveling to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s interim president, met with U.S. chargé d’affaires Laura Dogu to talk about the future.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2026

She takes over from John McNamara, who had served as chargé d’affaires since February 2025 and traveled to Venezuela in January to discuss the potential reopening of the embassy.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 2026

On Thursday, the U.S. named Laura F. Dogu, a former ambassador to Honduras and Nicaragua, as the new chargé d’affaires for the State Department’s Venezuela Affairs Unit, which is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

Estonia's foreign ministry said it had summoned Russia's chargé d'affaires and said it was treating the move as a "provocative border incident".

From BBC May 24, 2024

Some years before this time he had entered the diplomatic service, being attaché, first, at Vienna, then at Rome, then chargé d'affaires at Florence.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

The former Harrods owner died three years ago aged 94 having never faced any charges.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Though no charges have been filed against Walter or anyone associated with his businesses, one could imagine Walter pulling the trigger on the Dodgers sale simply to keep the feds at bay.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Some lenders allow borrowers to only pay monthly interest charges or a small fixed payment each month while they are still in school.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

Khan has been in jail since 2023 and was sentenced late last year along with his wife to 17 years on corruption charges they both deny.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

Now they say that Master Wingfield and some of the other gentlemen made up those charges.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

He said France and other EU countries are thinking about “having a common site to several European countries where our ambassadors or chargés d’affaires can be present” in Afghanistan.

From Seattle Times Dec. 4, 2021

In some countries, high-ranking government officials will not meet with anyone short of a formal U.S. ambassador, shunning the chargés d’affaires who have taken over in the interim.

From Washington Post Oct. 27, 2021

Thus the ambassador longest at Paris precedes all the other ambassadors at Paris; and the same rule prevails with the ministers and chargés, according to their respective gradations of rank.

From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

Also, a large and nervous party of fugitives of mixed nationalities and professions––consuls, chargés, attachés, and innocent, agitated citizens––was summarily grabbed and ordered into indefinite limbo.

From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

His salary was unprovided for; and there was no way of remedying this important omission, but by giving him place in the diplomatic service bill, among chargés d'affaires, envoys extraordinary, and ministers plenipotentiary.

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

Taiwan prosecutors charged nine people, including former Nvidia and Super Micro employees, with aiding the shipment of advanced AI servers to China.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Social media users in turn amplified the issue, and after three months Nguyen Van Sau was charged with "violating regulations on participation in road traffic".

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

You may actually be charged up to 102% of the premium — the amount your employer previously paid, in addition to your share of the premium and a 2% administrative fee.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

Australian police charged a man with foreign interference on Friday for allegedly seeking to pass intelligence about Ukrainian military activities to Russia.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

It charged a lot less for insurance on a putatively safe double-A-rated slice of a CDO than it did for insurance on the openly risky triple-B-rated bonds.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Europe had been charging ahead on renewables: Wind and solar now account for 34% of the continent’s power generation, compared with 20% in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Instead of billing insurance for routine office visits, they’re charging patients directly through a monthly or annual membership fee, a model known as direct primary care, or DPC.

From Slate Aug. 22, 2026

It marks the eighth charging of an individual with crimes related to spying and foreign interference in Australia.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

Not once did he come charging down the pitch.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Nathan grabbed it along with its charging cord and ran back into the store.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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