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chairwoman

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as in chairman

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Recent Examples of chairwoman Sharon Young, the current chairwoman, will transition to president. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, deputy chairwoman of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’s Justice and Development Party, or AKP, requested to be relieved of her duties on Saturday. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 DelBene, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairwoman, said frustration with the Republican Party has been building in Florida for a while now, with state candidates like Brian Nathan flipping District 14 blue in the state Senate. — Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 Lisa Su, chairwoman and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), delivers the opening keynote speech at Computex 2024, Taiwan’s premier tech expo, in Taipei on June 3, 2024. — Chris Eudaily, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chairwoman

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Whitmer is a former state representative and current chairman of the Sedgwick County Republican Party.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
Three weeks before the election, the chairman of Israel’s Central Elections Committee dismissed the case, but the AID Coalition agreed not to buy more blocks on additional flights.

— Daniel Brook, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026

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City rules stipulate that if the two branches of City Hall can’t agree on a replacement within 90 days of the term’s end, the chairperson’s tenure is then extended a year.

— Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 28 Oct. 2026
At Anthropic, the core septet has no apparent pay pyramid, despite Dario Amodei serving as CEO alongside Daniela Amodei as president and board chairperson.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026

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Among the presidential hopefuls are former presidents Michel Martelly, Claude Joseph and Jocelerme Privert, along with a former president of Haiti's Chamber of Deputies, Gary Bodeau, and Public Prosecutor Jean Ernest Muscadin.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
But lawmakers and presidents across both parties have failed for decades to address the prices, consolidation, and restrictive contracts that are pushing companies and workers to the brink.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 29 Oct. 2026

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