ex officio

Definition of ex officionext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ex officio
Adjective
  • Their head coach for qualifying, Steve McClaren, resigned immediately in disgrace, and Speid—a certified accountant who’s coached in Jamaica’s domestic league for more than a decade—took over.
    Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
  • Candidates for Teachers of the Year in the La Jolla Cluster — the five local campuses in the San Diego Unified School District — are nominated by their peers at each site, followed by a vote by all certified employees.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • Playground answered that question very quickly, taking Horizon from weird spinoff to, quite simply, the biggest racing game with licensed cars in it enjoyed by the general public.
    Adam Ismail, The Drive, 14 May 2026
  • In order to access it, a licensed treating physician must submit a request to Revolution Medicines, where an institutional review board then looks it over.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • Seizures come at tense diplomatic moment Iranian semiofficial news agencies reported that Chinese ships began passing through the strait Wednesday night under new Iranian protocols.
    Adam Schreck, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • Iranian semiofficial news agencies reported that Chinese ships began passing through the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday night under new Iranian protocols.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • To then spit out convincing, canonical answers about every fact ever.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • From 2009 to 2013, the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite mapped those patterns with extraordinary precision, producing what remains a canonical dataset for analyzing the CMB.
    Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
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“Ex officio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ex%20officio. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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