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officiaries

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plural of officiary

as in officials

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The proposal returned to the Baltimore County Council Tuesday, reigniting discussion over compensation for the county’s highest-ranking officials as some government employees continue pressing for higher pay.

— Natalie Jones, Baltimore Sun, 28 Oct. 2026
Unusual weather conditions played a role, officials said, with the number of extreme heat warning days tripling from five in 2025 to 15 so far this year.

— Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

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The postwar model of a large welfare and regulatory state, run by a class of civil servants charged with modernizing the economy, tempering market forces and defining the common good, has run its course.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
At the meeting, ministry Undersecretary Khaled Al-Raqab told the union that the amount was not a tax, but rather a donation sought by the ministry to help pay civil servants in the strip.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

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DuVernay says her team approached nearly 300 GOP officeholders, but only a little more than a dozen engaged with them at all.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
That year, three of Texas’s university systems appointed former Republican officeholders as their chancellors.

— Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

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