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- r in an official role
officially, he is in charge
officially responsible - r with official authorization
- The researcher had said that a "disastrous" earthquake would strike on March 29, but when it didn't, Guido Bertolaso, head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency, officially denounced .
- The church was officially skeptical.
- And while he grew up in an officially atheist country, he is a believer and often reads from a Bible that he keeps on his state plane.