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[cheef] / tʃif /




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"Today, fans are celebrating our stories in entirely new ways," said Disney's chief marketing and brand officer Asad Ayaz, following the TikTok deal being announced.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

“This collaboration creates a new bridge between the stories we tell and the creativity they inspire,” said Asad Ayaz, Disney’s chief marketing and brand officer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

“We are not sceptical of AI as a technology — we are users ourselves,” wrote a team led by chief investment officer Alberto Gallo.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Morocco is to co-host the 2030 World Cup and Moroccan Football chief Fouzi Lekjaa is one of the few to have publicly supported Infantino since the humiliating climbdown.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Their chief work, I learned from bits of conversation, was liaison with England and the Free Dutch forces fighting elsewhere on the continent.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

With ongoing uncertainty about when the conflict in Iran will end, finance chiefs are tallying up the damage as a fresh wave of earnings reports rolls in.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

He quoted intelligence chiefs as saying they had helped to develop a "range of measures" to manage any risks.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

The break-in process could take even longer given Warsh’s big divergence with past chiefs.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

Neil Gray told the BBC that fire chiefs told him they had access to "all the resources needed" to contain the Cairngorms blaze.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Jomon villages and cemeteries do not consist of a few richly decorated houses and graves contrasting with numerous spartan ones but are instead rather uniform—suggesting that there was little social stratification into chiefs and commoners.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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