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subagent

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as in agency

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The agency predicted strong winds, heavy rain and high waves in the Okinawa region through Sunday, urging residents in the area to stay indoors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
In many ways, staffers say, the shooting was a manifestation of an attack the agency was already feeling.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of agency

Noun

Pat Houston, Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law, former manager, and now the executor of her estate, confirmed to Vanity Fair that the lack of a Cinderella album was a great heartbreak of Houston’s career.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
That longer period can be helpful when no beneficiary is designated for the stock options and a personal representative/executor needs to be appointed during the probate process.

— Bruce Brumberg, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of executor

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Agents in Jira are generally available, allowing teams to assign work items to AI agents using the same interface as for human assignees, with full audit logging designed for compliance teams.

— Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
To assign a task, simply tick a box, add a description, choose assignees, and input an optional due date.

— Robert Anderson, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of assignee

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Employers would likely have to present their plans to OSHA, a subagency of the Labor Department, during a workplace inspection and could be fined for violations.

— Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
The subcommittee took particular aim at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a subagency within the Executive Office of the President.

— Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020

Definition of subagency

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The governor now picks one of three finalists named by a nominating commission controlled by attorneys.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
The county attorney presented a plan to sue several big pharma companies for the deceptive marketing practices that triggered the opioid epidemic, following the pattern established by lawsuits filed against tobacco companies starting in the 1990s.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of attorney

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Hiring has cooled for entry-level software developers — work increasingly done by AI agents — and college enrollment in computer and information science programs has been declining.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Smaller teams of high-agency engineers and builders are managing fleets of agents rather than executing every task by hand.

— Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of agent

Noun

Normally, Privacy Bee uses a proxy email to avoid giving away your real address.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
The race between the progressive former health official and Stevens, a moderate congresswomen, has served as an increasingly bitter proxy fight between the national Democratic Party's ideological factions.

— Joe Walsh, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of proxy

Noun

Kim needed at least two thirds of the 1,000 delegates attending the labor federation’s Oakland convention.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Roughly 1,000 delegates of the California Federation of Labor voted Tuesday to endorse Proposition 40, a one-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires aimed at addressing looming healthcare cuts.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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