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  • abbreviation Abbreviation of lieutenant, particularly as used in a title.

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Examples

  • But when she called Lt.Cmdr. Richard Jadick's commanding officer, he couldn't stop talking about the combat doctor: how rare it was for a high-ranking physician to volunteer for frontline duty, how Jadick kept moving his triage station closer to the front lines, how he personally saved the lives of 30 U.S. soldiers during the battle for Fallujah while directing a medical team that treated more than 200 wounded in a month.

    The Editor's Desk 2007

  • He didn't join the Republican primary until Dec. 19, a late start in a field already crowded with three-term Lt. Gov.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • Last weekend, several dozen SEALs joined together as a Navy warship was christened at Maine's Bath Iron Works in the name of Lt. Michael Murphy, a SEAL officer killed in Afghanistan.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • On Friday, around 10: 30 pm Western Indonesia Time, I called Lt.Col. Suharto's cell phone.

    CounterPunch 2010

  • His brother (a tavern owner who had no chance) was running for Gov. on a third party and TT did not support his 2 term Lt.Gov. who had supported him through the years.

    Latest Articles PPP Polling 2009

  • Getting back to 1960's TV, I remember a Star Trek episode where the Enterprise met President Lincoln and he called Lt. Uhura a "nigress" and Lincoln later apologized.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • For Dottie Wachter of Palm Coast, it was showing up at a street festival one night while wearing a Vietnam War POW MIA bracelet bearing the name Lt. Charles Stackhouse and finding out the next day he's alive and well.

    Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 2009

  • His brother (a tavern owner who had no chance) was running for Gov. on a third party and TT did not support his 2 term Lt.Gov. who had supported him through the years.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • She said she called Lt. Glenn Zanelotti, the supervisor for the Sheriff's Office southern division.

    Island Packet: Home 2008

  • How Frank G. Harris became a three-term Lt. Governor

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

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