Thesaurus results for GOVERNOR

governor

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as in administrator

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Recent Examples of governor Top state education officials are chosen in various ways, but in most states they’re appointed, either by a state board or by the governor. —

Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026 Her campaign has stuck to the message that Bottoms, who would be both the first Black and first female governor of Georgia, is the greatest hope for the state to go blue in the midterm. —

Irene Wright, USA Today, 18 May 2026 Kemp’s endorsement of Dooley followed months of pressure from national Republicans urging the governor to run himself against Ossoff. —

Nik Popli, Time, 18 May 2026 Former health and human services secretary Xavier Becerra recently nodded to reality on health care, and his Democratic rivals for California governor are pummeling him for it. —

Editorial Board, Washington Post, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for governor

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Then, almost two years into the investigation, Langston stopped by the police station and was chatting with a different administrator, who asked Langston whether the initial search had also been conducted in an older database that not everybody on staff knew about.

— Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Turn on multi-factor authentication, enable every account alert your plan offers and ask your employer or plan administrator what happens after an address, phone number or bank account change.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026