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[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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The quarter also marked the end of Warren Buffett’s long run as Berkshire’s chairman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Lissu became Chadema's national chairman in January 2025 and intensified his demands for electoral reforms.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Michael Cembalest, the chairman of market and investment strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, said the risk isn’t so much to next year but the year after.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

His decision not to seek the minority leadership clears the way for a contest between current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

During the discussion period after Woodhull’s speech, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative John Bingham, a Republican from Ohio, told Woodhull: “Madam, you are not a citizen.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Although dissents aren’t rare, Fed chairmen have often sought to project leadership by soliciting consensus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

His term as governor doesn’t expire until 2028, and most chairmen step down from the board when their chairmanship ends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 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

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

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

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

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

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

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

Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, chairmanned by President Hoover's great & good friend Henry Mauris Robinson, reported a ratio of cash & Governments to deposits of 26%.

From Time Magazine Archive

For four years he has chairmanned the Federal Council's Commission on a Just and Durable Peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

On that date the Quintuplets' Board of Guardians, chairmanned by Ontario Surrogate H. R. Valin, will hand them over for future bringing up to the gentle Grey Nuns of Ontario's Pembroke Diocese.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took a conspicuous but uninspired part in G. O. Politics, chairmanned the 1930 Senatorial Campaign committee.

From Time Magazine Archive


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