executor

as in delegate
someone who is named to act on behalf of another He named his daughter as the executor of his will.

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Recent Examples of executor Edelman was tapped as a replacement for the original director, Ava DuVernay, after Netflix and representatives of Comerica Bank, the interim executor for Prince’s estate, made a deal for the doc in 2018. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025 And in Congress, Democratic lawmakers representing the party’s progressive and centrist wings alike have cast Musk as the chief architect, executor and beneficiary of the new administration, portraying him as an unelected oligarch who is steamrolling the Constitution and stealing from taxpayers. Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025 The original deal for the documentary was made in 2018 between Netflix and representatives of Comerica Bank, the interim executor for Prince’s estate. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2025 Decide how these should be managed, preserved or deleted. Choose a digital executor. Patrick Van Esch, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for executor
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Noun
  • But most of the delegates were persuaded and supported his resolutions.
    Cassandra Good, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the delegates from Africa, South America and Asian countries were quite critical of how European defense spending dominated main discussions instead of other threats, such as climate change.
    The Dial, The Dial, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Here, traffic optimization isn’t just a single system’s job; fleets of autonomous vehicles, interconnected traffic lights, and predictive analytics engines work as coordinated agents, dynamically rerouting vehicles and minimizing congestion.
    Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Family Photo That all changed on the evening of March 8, when federal agents arrived at their door.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • However, the cloud provider deployment costs can serve as a good proxy to indicate relatively how much investment will be required to scale on-prem implementations.
    Francis Sideco, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The younger Assad avoided direct confrontation with Israel but provided its archenemy, Iran, with key supply routes to Tehran’s armed proxy groups, most notably Hezbollah in Lebanon, which fired thousands of rockets at Israel during the Israel-Hamas war.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Three days later, his immigration attorney was able to reach an ICE official who confirmed that his client was in a prison in another country.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Immigration agents detained Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow who teaches at Georgetown and has a visa, outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, his attorney has said.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The group’s legal representatives pointed to some instances in an email to TIME.
    Chad de Guzman, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Jay Wheeler, on the other hand, delivered an entire album that’s representative of his new era both professionally and personally.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Also in the power hallway is Beau Harrison, deputy chief of staff for operations.
    Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • During that period, his brother was hired into what appears to have been his first federal job—deputy director of the Office of Secretarial Boards and Councils at the Department of Energy.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Executor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/executor. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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