chaperone

In a speech to bankers, he said the Fed was “in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

It is unclear who that chaperone is or what powers, if any, were given to that person.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Yet these survivors are so hard-wired to be fearful of their neighbors that Hig and Cima’s rusty, tentative flirtation takes place under the gaze of her daddy’s gun, a heck of a chaperone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

As the company spread across the U.S., it maintained rules for decades: Kids were allowed only with a chaperone age 25 or older, and adults could tote along just three total kids.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Of course, Dr. Somerset had called the principal and asked if she could chaperone, but still.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

The cheerleaders needed to be glammed-up, professionalized—and able to go on the road without chaperones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Sporting brown berets and screen-printed vests with colorful hand-sewn badges, they followed chaperones inside as guests waiting in line recognized them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

James Cockayne, an Australian anti-slavery official, tells us there are “concerns that the women are being accompanied by chaperones and minders from the Iranian regime who are controlling their ability to move and speak freely.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

She said that families needed to be reassured about how any changes would affect their children, and also how it would affect chaperones needed to accompany some children.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

She leaned over and kissed him: a good, proper kiss without anyone watching—no Romans anywhere, no screaming satyr chaperones.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan