How to Use executive officer in a Sentence

executive officer

noun
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  • These executive officers’ terms, which will last three years, begin on June 1.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • Rather, the process is an attempt to include as many perspectives as possible in the eventual hiring of a new executive officer.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2024
  • Clark, 51, is charged with three counts of arson, resisting arrest and deterring an executive officer.
    — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • This year, role of executive officer falls to Joshua Elms, a 17-year-old from Phoenix.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The first was in Zabul Province in 2013 as an executive officer in the infantry.
    — Jon Blau, Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2020
  • Kendale Adams, who worked closely with the chief as his executive officer.
    — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The chief of the boat is the senior enlisted adviser to the commander and the executive officer.
    — NBC News, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Then the board’s executive officer left for a new job, and the county Board of Supervisors slashed the review board’s budget and staff.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Paul Parker, the board's executive officer, told the outlet that should change.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The state party and the national party are at odds over how the state picks its executive officers, like Worley.
    — al, 30 July 2019
  • Chief executive officer John Pagano didn’t say which banks would be providing the loans.
    — Vivian Nereim, Bloomberg.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Steve Smith, executive officer of Care4Calais, said the refugee charity’s lawyers helped to stop about 20 people from being moved onto the barge.
    — Karla Adam, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • At the very top of the totem pole is the battalion commander, followed by his right-hand man, the battalion executive officer.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Hampton is charged with four counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon, a felony charge for battery on a peace officer and two counts of threats to an executive officer.
    — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Alyssa Haley, a Navy veteran and the unit’s executive officer, said the kids were set to tour the ship Saturday afternoon.
    — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2023
  • At Goldman Sachs, three of the nine executive officers listed on its website are women.
    — Jena McGregor, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
  • All of a sudden, a strange entity attaches itself to the face of Kane (John Hurt), the executive officer, in a terrifying jump scare.
    — J.b., The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Her most recent assignment was as the executive officer aboard the USS Vicksburg.
    — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Faraday Future also said that Jia will no longer serve as an executive officer.
    — Sean O'Kane, Bloomberg.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Matejcic served as Cook’s executive officer the past eight years.
    — cleveland, 15 June 2022
  • Cameron Aljilani, was relieved of duty, as were the executive officer, Lt. Cmdr.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Callaghan has been with the agency for 23 years and had been serving as the executive officer — a deputy position — in the deputy commissioner of operations’ office.
    — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2021
  • The primary concern was pollution from people burning wood in their homes, Jack Broadbent, the the air district’s executive officer, said in a statement.
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Phil Blair, executive officer of staffing agency Manpower West, said workers waiting to return to the work force continues to be a concern.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Glen Whitley, the executive officer of surrounding Tarrant County, who has yet to reopen the area, questioned whether the mayor’s order was even legal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • When The Times told the athletic commission about the concerns with lump-sum payments, its executive officer, Andy Foster, pledged that anyone who needed to be paid in installments would be.
    — Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • At the same time, Dan acknowledged in court that others in the group named him executive officer, a position often considered second in command.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Calavetta was assigned to be the Parkland executive officer in 2021 and promoted to captain that same year, according to the Sheriff’s Office website.
    — Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2022
  • Then one day, the executive officer slipped new papers into a briefing binder shortly before quizzing service members on its contents.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Samuel Lombardo — Lombardo served as a rifle platoon leader and company executive officer, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and other major campaigns in the final months of the war.
    — al, 2 Feb. 2020

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