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command post

noun

Definition of command post

as in headquarters

the place from which a commander runs operations a historic home that for a time served as Washington's command post during the American Revolution

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Recent Examples of command post But old-school defenses still matter, too, including obstacles meant to stop tanks and command posts buried underground across the tiny nation. — Aaron MacLean, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 According to the citation, Obiazi was later re-apprehended and taken to the command post, where officers discovered the gun was reported missing from Louisville Metro Police. — Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 31 Aug. 2026 The two countries usually hold field a set of training exercises during the command post exercise period. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 The mayor said Buenaventura had established a unified command post bringing together government agencies, police and emergency organizations. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for command post

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Last weekend in Highland, Michigan, Rogers dismissed El-Sayed's attempts to whittle away at his GOP base of support.

— Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
The entry-level system for this 16-inch AI workstation is outfitted with Nvidia’s base-model 18-core RTX Spark N1X chip, which uses the 18-core Grace CPU processor, and its Blackwell GPU with 5,120 CUDA cores.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026

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