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chairman

[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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Superagent and WME Group executive chairman Ari Emanuel’s lust for upside is the stuff of legend.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Mal Bridgeman, the chairman of Brantham Parish Council, said he was not sure the community could ever come to terms with the events of the past week.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

He joined the state ethanol board as a member, and later became chairman.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Warren Buffett’s son doesn’t have the standard resume of a massive conglomerate’s chairman.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

My letter had gone instead to a new chairman, who took a more active interest in directing young people.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

“Fed chairmen don’t get those seven votes just by showing up,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

Manifold’s abrupt departure adds to BP’s leadership turmoil, which has seen four CEOs and three chairmen since 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

Earlier Fed chairmen have worked to further Fed independence and accountability by bolstering the role of the Federal Reserve Banks.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

Most chairmen leave when their terms expire, but they do not have to -- and Powell could remain a governor until 2028.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

I started calling department chairmen to ask for another week, another ten days—‘more time to reach a decision’— to avoid the decision I would have to make.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

It provides that all legal disputes which may arise between Austria and Czechoslovakia are to be submitted to an impartial commission chairmaned by an appointee of the Swiss Government.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Edinburgh in 1910 he chairmaned the great interdenominational world conference, out of which evolved in 1920 the I.M.C., which he has headed ever since.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission for its first ten months and got it off to a handsome start, he has been its only boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan last week famed, forthright Physiologist Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago chairmaned a meeting aimed at overcoming this situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was late in the afternoon of the same day that the Federative Council sent its committee, chairmaned by Engineer Scott, to interview the ex-general manager at his rooms in the Clarendon.

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde

Because of shrewdly worded British reservations the Import Duties Advisory Committee chairmanned by hatchet-faced, be-monocled Sir George May can up tariffs to protect any British industry which asked protection before the "truce" was signed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four House Democrats and three Republicans conducted the investigation, chairmanned by Democrat John W. Mc-Cormack of South Boston, precipitated by the anti-Nazi outcries of Democrat Samuel Dickstein of Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

In London the German and Italian Ambassadors fortnight ago showed the solidarity of Berlin and Rome by arriving together for sessions of the increasingly farcical International Committee for Non-intervention chairmanned by Lord Plymouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before the Appropriations subcommittee chairmanned by Colorado's compact little Senator Adams, Alabama's gift to the drama tossed aside her blue felt hat, perched herself on the table and read a prepared statement.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Yale he played some football, some golf, chairmanned the Yale Graphic.

From Time Magazine Archive




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