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Zanotta advertised the first beanbag chair, the polystyrene-filled “Sacco,” as “A Big Bag, a Soft Seat.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Cris Abrego, chair of the Television Academy, said the deal gives the ceremony "unprecedented global reach", allowing audiences in more than 200 countries to watch live.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

But when they have, they have rarely said anything that would box the chair into a course he didn’t support, and there is no sign that standard has changed under Warsh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"It is imperative that Cornell be willing to examine itself with the same rigor we expect of others," Anne Meinig Smalling, chair of the university's board of trustees, said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Tansy stuck her in the crook of her arm and climbed the rostrum to settle her in teacher’s chair behind the desk.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

“We had a table and chairs that would seat 12 people and came from Peter’s grandparents. The table was marred on top and the consignment people wouldn’t take it,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Prof Angela O'Hagan, who chairs the commission, said the report highlighted the "gaps" between rights everyone was entitled to and the "lived reality" in southern Scotland.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

At the Kfar Aza kibbutz, which was also devastated by the attack, mourners sat in silence in assembled chairs as they watched the raising of an Israeli flag.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Their hands are full with folding chairs and camping beds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

I saw several people sitting in chairs up there.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

One of Delrahim’s first moves was to tap Jon Leibowitz, who chaired the Federal Trade Commission under President Barack Obama, as an outside antitrust adviser.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Etihad is owned by sovereign wealth fund L'Imad which is chaired by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the son of the UAE president.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

On the City Council, she passed significant legislation around tenants’ rights and rent stabilization and chaired the council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee starting in 2023, but lost that position in a council shakeup this summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

He worked some in the public sector, winning a seat as a county commissioner in Omaha in the late 1980s, and he chaired the state ethanol board.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Yolanda was one of the more popular instructors at the college where he chaired the Comp Lit Department.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Countries negotiating a world-first treaty to limit plastic pollution are less divided than before and a deal could be agreed in March, the diplomat chairing the talks told AFP on Thursday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Fox’s own Washington bureau chief, Bryan Boughton, who happened to be chairing the pool this week, sent the note announcing the shutdown.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Besides chairing the Senate’s Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, Allen also is running in November’s election to be the state’s next insurance commissioner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"We are preparing in advance, not waiting for a crisis," said Chouhan, after chairing a meeting on the issue last week.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

In the days leading up to the charrette, Durham’s two white newspapers also featured several in-depth stories about the event, many of them focusing on the odd couple chairing it.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson