second-in-command
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It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s COO, left the company this week to “start something new,” just a few weeks after Altman’s second-in-command, Fidji Simo, stepped down over health issues.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Longtime correspondent Scott Pelley was fired last month after confronting management about the May 28 dismissal of his colleagues Alfonsi and Vega along with the program’s executive producer Tanya Simon and her second-in-command Draggan Mihailovich.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The experienced and arrogant Lee, Washington’s second-in-command, practiced what he described as a “virtuous kind of treason.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
At two o’clock, his second-in-command tiptoed into the general’s cabin to speak in a whisper: “Sir, I am awaiting your orders for a counterattack, sir.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
