in chief

• “Hu Xijin, editor in chief of Global Times part of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily, cited the incident in an item he posted on the Chinese version of Twitter attacking his own government.”

  The Wall Street Journal: China Goes Phishing

• “Meanwhile, on August 14, the Virginia Assembly had appointed Washington its commander in chief of militia, and in that capacity he undertook the almost impossible task of defending a 350-mile-long frontier.”

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “Global fashion icon and editor in chief of American Vogue magazine and assumed clotheshorse Anna Wintour agrees.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Style Checklist

• “After several minutes he gave up looking for his own men and concentrated on looking for the whereabouts of the commander in chief of the American army.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE TIME QUAKE

• “His progress, however, was slower than Washington had anticipated, and on July 29 the commander in chief wrote to him, I cannot but repeat my entreaties that you will hasten your operations with all possible dispatch; and that you will disencumber yourself of every article of baggage and stores which is not necessary. . .”

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “In short, the change in chief of staff was more than a change in personnelit was a fundamental change in the way Clintons White House went about its business.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “The lexicographer Frank Abate, former editor in chief of American dictionaries for Oxford University Press, disagrees: The idea of ‘pale’ in the OED seems to me to be misleading.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “He had fought with Wolfe in the decisive battle for Québec, where directly after the war, in 1760, he had been made military governor; in 1761, he had been promoted to major general; two years later he succeeded Jeffrey Amherst as commander in chief of the British forces in America.”

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “Nothing to it—satisfies the need for the new: “Hyphenation gives the impression,” says Frank Abate, former editor in chief of the U.S. Dictionaries program at Oxford University Press, “that the compound is novel, imaginative or requires some background knowledge.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Washington greeted them with a “cheerful and hearty Welcome,” and invited them to attend his levee, a daily gathering where the commander in chief entertained anyone seeking an audience—“All the General Officers of the American and French Armies,” Morris recorded in his diary, “The Commanders of Regiments, Heads of Departments, and such Strangers as Visit Camp.””

  Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

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