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  • proper noun A surname.

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Examples

  • Faculty members last week took a vote of no confidence in Provost Stacey Franklin Jones and President Mickey Burnim.

    Bowie State faculty: Life under provost 'untenable' Daniel de Vise 2010

  • The Provost is currently developing a plan to provide the required weeks of instruction.

    Hurricane Katrina 2007

  • Attaran, as a lawyer who first made the official complaint that sparked the DND investigations would be calling the Provost Marshal the CF's own "police chief" late at night in the first place?

    You want a 'conversation'? You got my half of it... 2007

  • No answer as to why Attaran called the Provost Marshal late Tuesday night, or what was said that would make Cdr LaViolette call back with a witness present - in fact, they wouldn't even post the question.

    You want a 'conversation'? You got my half of it... 2007

  • No answer as to why Attaran called the Provost Marshal late Tuesday night, or what was said that would make Cdr LaViolette call back with a witness present - in fact, they wouldn't even post the question.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • The Provost is the chief academic officer of the University, responsible for guiding the academic direction of the institution and ensuring the quality of programs and faculty.

    Archive 2007-09-01 James F. McGrath 2007

  • Attaran, as a lawyer who first made the official complaint that sparked the DND investigations would be calling the Provost Marshal the CF's own "police chief" late at night in the first place?

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • The sports were regulated by an officer of inferior rank, termed the Provost of the Games; for the high rank of the marshals of the lists would have been held degraded, had they condescended to superintend the sports of the yeomanry.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • The sports were regulated by an officer of inferior rank, termed the Provost of the Games; for the high rank of the marshals of the lists would have been held degraded, had they condescended to superintend the sports of the yeomanry.

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

  • During the war it was known as The Provost, because it was the head quarters of a provost-marshal named Cunningham.

    The Story of Manhattan Charles Hemstreet

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