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She is also claiming for ten more articles which "were written by journalists who were commissioning other private investigators to do similar unlawful things", she said in her statement.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

“If I were commissioning the interior of any kind of store and someone brought me blueprints including glass staircases, I’d tell him to take a hike,” she wrote then.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2018

If Essex’s men thought they were commissioning a straightforward paean to the glory of usurping bad rulers, they thought very wrong.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2018

After graduation Smith clerked for a year with Standard Oil, dropped the job in a flash when he read in a newspaper that the Marines were commissioning men with university military training such as his.

From Time Magazine Archive

I believe Misha wrote to you as though someone were commissioning me to go, but that's nonsense.

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance