gov.
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governor.
gov.
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governor.
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government.
Gov.
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Gov.
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gov
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“U.S. gov. employees have been instructed to avoid the area until further notice,” according to the statement, which did not describe the nature of the protest.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
"Inaleinable rights"; gov. power = people power; Parliament ≠ American people; lots of grievances!
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2017
The federal deficit measures the net flow of money from the federal gov. to people, businesses and state & local govs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person ...
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2011
“Well, but it was a message from the gov., and—I say, Dig,” added he, turning to his friend with a nudge, “you cut when Mark tells you.”
From The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed
His transition team includes several of his former advisers, and others who worked for Gov. Gavin Newsom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may do so as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Federal Reserve Gov. Chris Waller on Tuesday put the possibility of a half-point rate hike into the mix, depending how hot consumer price data for October comes in.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
“Every school, park, and childcare center in the affected area has been cleaned,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement Friday, “and nearly 6,500 homes have been made safer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Carlos: Mom says they won’t buy me one until I’m 18, because she thinks the Gov. wouldn’t challenge an adult’s as much.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
"Somaliland gov has agreed to an unconditional cease-fire tonight despite past attacks by militias," Somaliland's defence minister Abdiqani Mahamoud Ateye wrote on Twitter.
From Reuters ● Feb. 10, 2023
"They don't even receive Welsh gov financial aid. Any chance of some common sense?"
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2022
Can’t call it an official wedding until the gov reopens, so until then, I leave you with this: we closed out 2018 with a really really really good party with those we love most.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2019
The only other place that can supply money to the private sector is the federal gov.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2016
He’d a rose in his button-hole, and he took it out and gov it her, and he säa, ‘Yeou’ll like to hev it, for that cum up from Suffolk this mornin’.’
From Two Suffolk Friends by Francis Hindes Groome
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