chief
Example Sentences
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Tony serves as chief executive while Josephine handpicks much of the store’s merchandise.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
"We expect those numbers to keep increasing, given the amount of time the virus was circulating before the outbreak was detected," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
“OpenAI needs to reassure its current investors that the revenue issues reported earlier this year are being resolved,” Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, told MarketWatch in emailed comments.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
“There have been some unintended consequences,” said Miguel Santana, chief executive of the California Community Foundation, a nonprofit that supported the tax when it was on local ballots in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Ingil is Ligni, or the Count de Ligny, the French military chief.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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