emeritus
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Business risks can overlap, said Roger W. Ferguson Jr., vice chairman of the Business Council, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, and the Conference Board’s chair emeritus.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Jan Brueckner, an emeritus economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, predicted that airlines would continue to offer "basic economy" fares originally unveiled to compete with Spirit and other budget carriers.
From Barron's • May 9, 2026
To which reader Michael Mendle, an emeritus professor at the University of Alabama and scholar of 17th-century British history, responded:
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
President Trump is listed as a co-founder emeritus, as is Steve Witkoff, the real estate developer who serves as Trump’s Middle East envoy with responsibility for negotiating a peace deal with Iran.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
He became professor emeritus in 1872, and died at Groningen on the 5th of December 1886.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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