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[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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Allen also became chairman and chief executive of the company.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Tice was chairman of Reform UK until 11 July, having previously been its leader.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

“Warsh is not the guy who drives the bus anymore. We have 12 independent voters. The chairman is one of 12,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

Pest-control firm Rollins, whose brands include Orkin, gave its billionaire chairman emeritus, Gary W. Rollins, $26,751 worth of free meals at the company’s executive dining room—$107 per workday.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

With Hunt still confined to his room, Post stood in as chairman.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“Fed chairmen don’t get those seven votes just by showing up,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 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

Most chairmen leave when their terms expire, but they do not have to -- and Powell could remain a governor until 2028.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

For the longest time, boardroom chaos was as much a part of Rangers as mascot Broxi Bear - a revolving door of owners, chairmen, chief executives, sporting directors and recruitment specialists.

From BBC Oct. 20, 2025

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

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

In Manhattan last week famed, forthright Physiologist Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago chairmaned a meeting aimed at overcoming this situation.

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

At Edinburgh in 1910 he chairmaned the great interdenominational world conference, out of which evolved in 1920 the I.M.C., which he has headed ever since.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Lynde, Francis

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

At Yale he played some football, some golf, chairmanned the Yale Graphic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four House Democrats and three Republicans conducted the investigation, chairmanned by Democrat John W. Mc-Cormack of South Boston, precipitated by the anti-Nazi outcries of Democrat Samuel Dickstein of Manhattan.

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

Directly behind the 13-man labor committee, chairmanned by Utah's bald and scholarly Elbert Duncan Thomas, sat Mrs. Taft placidly knitting on a sweater for a grandson.

From Time Magazine Archive




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