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Officials said the military chiefs of the services all participated in the discussions leading up to the secretaries’ memos.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2021

“OMB is where Cabinet secretaries’ ill-considered projects go to die, where programs are evaluated, where trade-offs are made.

From Reuters • Dec. 1, 2020

And maybe the new Cabinet secretaries’ underlings will challenge them, just as they challenged the likes of Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton during the Obama years.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2020

Many Cabinet secretaries’ images are absent, too, in some cases apparently because they don’t want to upstage the president.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2017

I forgot to say that the wives of foreign Ministers have fauteuils on their platform, behind which stand their secretaries' wives.

From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)