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officials

  • plural
    of official.
    official
    noun
    a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.

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When it does, such a statement is typically handled by working-level officials, said Hong Min, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification, a South Korea-funded think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

VAR has added a huge amount of additional scrutiny on officials, not just from the press.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The disruptions were brief, however, in part because a message board funded by the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, alerted election officials that the FBI had deemed the threats not credible.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

South Korea is investigating an online leak of passport details belonging to President Lee Jae Myung and more than 160 other officials, a government minister said on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

But as soon as the Hunley arrived in Charleston Harbor, Southern military officials seized it and turned it over to the Confederate army.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler