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chairman

[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is one such man.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

Club chairman Fred Ridley has bemoaned how professional golf has become increasingly one-dimensional and dominated by long hitters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is one such man.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

"It's incredibly exciting - hopefully it'll be used on many more projects in the future," said company chairman Dr Peter Dickinson.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

The word came from John Slater, MIT’s physics chairman, who was passing on thirdhand information from a National Research Fellow in his laboratory, who heard it from a friend at Harvard working at Raytheon part-time.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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