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Recent Examples of president Other financial aid programs are also secure, the college president said. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025 The president insists that tariffs will help expand American manufacturing, which would make for a stronger economy overall. Rohit Arora, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 Across Florida, local and state law enforcement agencies are rushing to meet the Trump administration’s call for police to help find and arrest immigrants here illegally, positioning the state on the vanguard of the president’s plan to carry out the largest deportation effort in U.S. history. Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2025 The president's comments in the Oval Office echoed his sentiments from the interview, which was taped Thursday. arkansasonline.com, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for president
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Noun
  • And then their chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of PIF and a close ally of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left his seat in Wembley’s Royal Box and went down to the pitch to join the celebrations, lifting the trophy in front of the club’s supporters.
    Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
  • David Novak, co-founder of the fast-food giant behind KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, was named chairman of the company that will be formed by Comcast‘s decision to spin off the many cable networks of NBCUniversal.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
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  • The board’s chairperson, Jennifer Hockenhull, declined to comment on the lawsuit.
    Danny Freeman, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
  • From left to right: Banco Santander executive chairperson Ana Botin, Bank of America chair and CEO Brian Moynihan, TotalEnergies chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanne and Blackstone Group chair and CEO Stephen Schwarzman, during Trump's address at Davos.
    Alex Ledsom, Fortune Europe, 10 Feb. 2025
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  • The View producer Brian Teta was once again called out by EGOT-winning actress and show moderator Whoopi Goldberg live on the air.
    EW.com, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The former First Lady of Canada and longtime mental health advocate sat down with moderator Gina Pell, creative Leader and co-founder of The What and The What Alliance, for a deeply personal conversation about resilience, trauma and the power of vulnerability.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 8 Mar. 2025

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