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[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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But Paul Irving, the 74-year-old former chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, calls the 70s “a really interesting interstitial period that we haven’t talked about enough.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 23, 2026

Malcolm Penn, chairman of the semiconductor consultancy Future Horizons, said AT&S was one of few European companies directly benefiting from booming demand for AI hardware.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

Marshall Farrer, 55, a fifth-generation descendant who is chairman of Brown-Forman’s board, has tried to keep the peace.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Paul Garrod, chairman and crew member of the Caister lifeboat, said the callout was a "little bit different", but they were more than willing to help.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

The Reverend Theodore Parker, who when a boy bought a Latin dictionary with the first money he ever earned, was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Boston Vigilance Committee.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

The test of the Warsh Fed, as with all chairmen, is whether the central bank achieves and maintains price stability.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Indeed, Warsh was less willing than previous Fed chairmen to speculate much on the path of the economy, inflation and interest rates during his first press conference.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 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

Before you get to that stage, however, club owners and chairmen will rely on their sporting director and chief executive to compile a list of names.

From BBC Apr. 3, 2026

I wrote a note to all the chairmen of English departments who had offered me jobs.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The Senate committee, chairmaned by Florida's New-Dealing Pepper, proposed to do something to better the nation's health.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

In 1941 he chairmanned the U.S.O.'s $10 million fund-raising drive.

From Time Magazine Archive

For four years he has chairmanned the Federal Council's Commission on a Just and Durable Peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took a conspicuous but uninspired part in G. O. Politics, chairmanned the 1930 Senatorial Campaign committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

These experts were chairmanned by Sir John Maffey and the official character of the document was so self-evident that the British Foreign Office was constrained to admit its genuineness, although deprecating it as "old."

From Time Magazine Archive

Owen D. Young chairmanned a committee to raise $1.000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive




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