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Recent Examples of jefe Chambers, a longtime exec, spent a great degree of time in L.A. since serving as distribution jefe for Disney. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025 Many of my peers learned English from Scully — as my jefe Hector once wrote, there was no better teacher outside of Warner Bros. cartoons. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022 Los Tigres del Norte Leave it to Los Tigres del Norte’s power anthem to get everyone on the dance floor feeling like a jefe (boss). Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 May 2022 By April 18, the sometime ship mechanic Manuel Hedilla, acting head of the party, was elected its new jefe nacional by a narrow vote. Jesús Palacios, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jefe
Noun
  • The Paley Center for Media opened its new archive, which comprises more than 160,000 television, radio programs and advertisements, at the Beverly Hills Public Library with a little help from FX boss John Landgraf.
    Peter White, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Tomorrow, Saturday, March 22, the Artcore label boss is slated to take over New York City’s Brooklyn Storehouse.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In this version, Snow White puts the dwarves to work, giving them each a job and acting as a kind of foreman.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Azevedo, a sheet-metal foreman who won election last year to a second council term, has repeatedly declined to comment on the FBI raid at his home, except to declare his innocence.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts Pildes added that public opinion can be expressed through economics, which federal leaders watch attentively.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The Olympic Journey: Failure In 2008 Elana had finished an outstanding college softball career at GWU as the all-time leader in many offensive categories.
    Tim Genske, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Those were the cultural concepts that Harvey Pratt, a chief of the tribe, drew on to design the Native American Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Karl recalled that about forty minutes later, the chief called back with bad news.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The former captain excels at hunting pucks, which is an important part of goal-line duty.
    Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • What the team captain wasn’t expecting was getting a leg cramp with four minutes remaining in the state championship game and her team holding a 53-48 lead against Melbourne Palm Bay in the Class 4A title game.
    Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tom Sharpe, former United Kingdom Royal Navy commander, reiterated this point.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Murder, torture, rape and summary executions of prisoners of war ordered by commanders.
    Askold Haywas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Even historically celebrated geniuses like Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs benefited immensely from working in fields that were fertile with change, ripe for disruption, and full of hard-working builders, makers, managers, and workers.
    Mark Nevins, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Most significant, though, was the presence of Egil Olsen, a manager derided as a dinosaur at the time but who looks, in hindsight, an awful lot like a pioneer.
    Rory Smith, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025

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“Jefe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jefe. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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