Thesaurus results for APPOINTEES

appointees

noun

plural of appointee

as in nominees

one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty the announcement of the presidential appointees to the cabinet

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Recent Examples of appointees Under Dhillon, however, the front office, which is made up of political appointees and ideological allies, has removed the usual career staff from the process and taken the lead in hiring. — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026 Though a shakeup in the midterms might well mess with the routines of loyal Trump appointees like Patel, on this night, chugging beers on the rooftop at the rink, Kash was king. — Richie McGinniss, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026 The board includes a representative from the team, the commerce secretary, appointees of the governor and legislative leaders and local representatives from KCK and Olathe. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2026 No, the committee is made up of executive branch appointees who report to the president. — Matt Peterson,luke Fountain, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026 The appointees themselves could not be elected officials, lobbyists, county employees or related to a commissioner. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 In the past, ambassadors to key countries like Chile, Israel, Peru, the Philippines, Turkey and Egypt, for example, have almost always been career appointees. — Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026 But the new direction caused misgivings for some conservative supporters of the institution, such as Graves, who joined the regents as one of the three Republican congressional appointees in 2023. — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2026 And in May, OMB rocked the scientific community by proposing a rewrite to the bedrock guidance for all federal contracts that deemphasized peer review and empowered political appointees in driving decisions. — STAT, 23 Sep. 2026

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The Senate also confirmed Obama’s picks for defense secretary and education secretary as well as 20 judicial nominees, even as Republicans outraged Democrats by blocking Garland.

— Theodoric Meyer, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2026
In such seats, the primary becomes the real election, a dynamic that tends to favor the coronation of extremely polarizing nominees since, typically, that electorate is composed of committed partisans.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

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The potential candidates will also hear more cynical arguments in favor of running no matter what.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Kristin Pawlik and Wendy Howerton garnered the most votes among the three candidates in the March nonpartisan judicial race, but neither got more than the 50% required to win outright.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026

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