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1. commander in chief, generalissimonoun

   the officer who holds the supreme command

   "in the U.S. the president is the commander in chief"

   Synonyms:
   generalissimo

How to use commander in chief in a sentence?

1. Sean Bigley:

   The president is ‘the government’ when it comes to making security clearance determinations, as the granting, denial, or revocation of a security clearance falls squarely within the president’s commander-in-chief powers per [a Supreme Court ruling].

2. Sean Higgins:

   His crassness bothers me, his vulgarity bothers me. This is going to be someone who will be our commander in chief.

3. Former Vice President Joe Biden:

   I laid out what I thought he should be doing. I laid out four or five specific points that I thought were necessary. I indicated that it is about taking responsibility, and being the commander-in-chief, taking on the responsibility. He asked whether or not we would not discuss the detail of what we talked about, just saying that we had a good conversation.

4. Josh Earnest:

   The president is, after all, the commander-in-chief. So he obviously has significant say over what kinds of things are happening over at the Department of Defense.

5. Sean Penn:

   Only the U.S. constitution could sideline his presidency... As the administration that followed squandered the surplus with misguided wars, the devastation we face today would have been tempered today if he (Clinton) had continued as our commander in chief.

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