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appoint

[uh-point] / əˈpɔɪnt /




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Hancock Whitney Financial Planning advises people to appoint a corporate executor in order to avoid familial clashes when dealing with sensitive issues like the one you are currently navigating.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

Blanche is set to appoint a five-member commission that will evaluate the claims.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

On Tuesday Target is expected to appoint Jeff England as its chief global supply-chain and logistics officer, replacing longtime Target executive Gretchen McCarthy, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

He's expected to appoint his government ministers on Wednesday on his first full day in office.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Graduate Dean George Birkhoff assured Ernest of Harvard’s high esteem for Oppenheimer “as a creative theorist” and confided that the university was willing to appoint him as an associate professor at $6,000.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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