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It’s a tough break for Swan, the former CFO who had a long and illustrious career in finance before ending up as the surprise pick for CEO at Intel almost exactly two years ago.
INTEL GETS THE LEADER IT NEEDSAARON PRESSMANJANUARY 13, 2021FORTUNE
Previously, 2016 had held that illustrious title—and global warming records are getting broken faster and faster.
2020 IS ON TRACK TO BE THE HOTTEST YEAR IN HISTORYSARA CHODOSHDECEMBER 18, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE
The illustrious Blue Ivy Carter has a resumé most adults would envy.
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William Pitt, earl of Chatham, a most illustrious English statesman, died.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
Those illustrious heroes of antiquity became the companions of her solitude and of her hourly thoughts.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
Disgusted with the frivolity of the living, she sought solace for her wounded feelings in companionship with the illustrious dead.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
Jane was thus prepared by Providence for that career which she rendered so illustrious through her talents and her sufferings.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
Her illustrious father found her when even a child as to age, quite his companion as to comprehension and mental capacities.
THE CHILDHOOD OF DISTINGUISHED WOMENSELINA A. BOWER
There were hundreds of thousands in France, the most illustrious in rank and opulence, who would join such an army.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
Her husband became more illustrious through that brilliance she was ever anxious to reflect upon him.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
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