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chairman

[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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“This acquisition marks the next era of growth for Ithaca Energy as we make our inaugural international acquisition in offshore east coast Canada,” said Yaniv Friedman, executive chairman of Ithaca Energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Borussia Dortmund president – and Bundesliga chairman – Hans-Joachim Watzke added his influential voice, stating: "Champions must go up and we think the compass model with four regional leagues is the best option."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ellison, currently the chairman and chief executive of Paramount, is aiming to finalize the acquisition of Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“I was the chairman of it in Chicago at Marion, which is great,” he said, incorrectly.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

My letter had gone instead to a new chairman, who took a more active interest in directing young people.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

New Federal Reserve chairmen don’t come around often.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Indeed, Warsh was less willing than previous Fed chairmen to speculate much on the path of the economy, inflation and interest rates during his first press conference.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Earlier Fed chairmen have worked to further Fed independence and accountability by bolstering the role of the Federal Reserve Banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

There are dedicated recruitment staff at many clubs now but managers and chairmen still need a free week before any deadline, so please use some common sense and stop this madness!

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

I wrote a note to all the chairmen of English departments who had offered me jobs.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The Senate committee, chairmaned by Florida's New-Dealing Pepper, proposed to do something to better the nation's health.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission for its first ten months and got it off to a handsome start, he has been its only boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

As such he supervised the corporation's financial affairs, chairmaned some of its most important committees.

From Time Magazine Archive

It provides that all legal disputes which may arise between Austria and Czechoslovakia are to be submitted to an impartial commission chairmaned by an appointee of the Swiss Government.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was late in the afternoon of the same day that the Federative Council sent its committee, chairmaned by Engineer Scott, to interview the ex-general manager at his rooms in the Clarendon.

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde

These experts were chairmanned by Sir John Maffey and the official character of the document was so self-evident that the British Foreign Office was constrained to admit its genuineness, although deprecating it as "old."

From Time Magazine Archive

His plan: an Industry Council made up of an equal number of representatives from management and S. W. O. C., chairmanned by a Government man.

From Time Magazine Archive

In London the German and Italian Ambassadors fortnight ago showed the solidarity of Berlin and Rome by arriving together for sessions of the increasingly farcical International Committee for Non-intervention chairmanned by Lord Plymouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Owen D. Young chairmanned a committee to raise $1.000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because of shrewdly worded British reservations the Import Duties Advisory Committee chairmanned by hatchet-faced, be-monocled Sir George May can up tariffs to protect any British industry which asked protection before the "truce" was signed.

From Time Magazine Archive




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