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Recent Examples of directorship
The legacy of rules dates back to 1972, initially shaped by choreographer Texie Waterman and expanded during Suzanne Mitchell's directorship from 1976 to 1989.
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Maddie Garfinkle,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
McMahon, who has led PED as its interim director since the departure of Nicolle Newton last September, was offered the directorship last month by Mayor Kaohly Her.
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Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
14 May 2026
Ortiz assumed directorship of MAMBO in March 2024, arriving from the field of journalism and media, with no experience in museum management.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
1 May 2026
But with being recently appointed music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony, general music director of the city of Cologne and being principal conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI in Turin, Italy, Orozco-Estrada is an unlikely candidate for a music directorship here.
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Steven Winn,
San Francisco Chronicle,
21 Mar. 2026
Aged 22, Matheson completed a diploma in sport directorship.
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Stuart James,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
Mladenov must also figure out how to transition Gaza from nearly two decades of Hamas rule to the Palestinian technocratic committee under his directorship.
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Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
18 Jan. 2026
Junnar is stepping away from the directorship at the end of this semester, the same time that her husband, Hiram Chodosh, will leave his position as CMC’s president.
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Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
7 Jan. 2026
The memorandum was cosigned by Vernadsky’s younger colleague Vitalii Khlopin, who had taken over the directorship of the Radium Institute from Vernadsky in 1939.
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Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Maddie Garfinkle,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
McMahon, who has led PED as its interim director since the departure of Nicolle Newton last September, was offered the directorship last month by Mayor Kaohly Her.
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Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
14 May 2026
Ortiz assumed directorship of MAMBO in March 2024, arriving from the field of journalism and media, with no experience in museum management.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
1 May 2026
But with being recently appointed music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony, general music director of the city of Cologne and being principal conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI in Turin, Italy, Orozco-Estrada is an unlikely candidate for a music directorship here.
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Steven Winn,
San Francisco Chronicle,
21 Mar. 2026
Aged 22, Matheson completed a diploma in sport directorship.
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Stuart James,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
Mladenov must also figure out how to transition Gaza from nearly two decades of Hamas rule to the Palestinian technocratic committee under his directorship.
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Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
18 Jan. 2026
Junnar is stepping away from the directorship at the end of this semester, the same time that her husband, Hiram Chodosh, will leave his position as CMC’s president.
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Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
7 Jan. 2026
The memorandum was cosigned by Vernadsky’s younger colleague Vitalii Khlopin, who had taken over the directorship of the Radium Institute from Vernadsky in 1939.
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Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for directorship
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Following his first meeting at the helm Wednesday, Warsh outlined the plan — a sprawling, ambitious endeavor entailing five task forces that will utilize resources and experts within the Fed and from the outside.
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Noticing puts you back at the helm.
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People gathered on the National Mall in the shadow of the Washington Monument, sitting on blankets and plastic chairs in the balmy summer weather.
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Houston has relented, however, following the council’s ouster of Commissioner Omar Farmer, an outspoken police critic, and a cooling-off of tensions between Houston and Commissioner Ricardo Garcia-Acosta, the current chair of the watchdog body.
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These chapters exist under the headship of the National Students for Justice in Palestine, who distributed a toolkit identifying themselves as part of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
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If people question the absolute infallibility of scripture, perhaps favoring a more literary or historical approach, then the case for male headship collapses.
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Quinn also made the decision to go play piano in New York at the end of last season after a steamy back and forth with Staten, whose father (Brett Cullen) challenged him for chairmanship of the Double K Ranch.
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That is the inheritance now facing Warsh, who has openly cast Greenspan as a model for his own chairmanship.
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An additional $5 million will fund a deanship, $3 million will support a chair in biomedical engineering, and $5 million will establish a research fund for faculty fellowships, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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Marcos, who currently holds the rotating presidency of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, led leaders of the 11-nation bloc in commemorating the 35th anniversary of ASEAN's diplomatic relations with Russia.
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Marcos, who currently holds the rotating presidency of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, led leaders of the 11-nation bloc in commemorating the 35th anniversary of ASEAN’s diplomatic relations with Russia.
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The fallout In the aftermath of the UFT’s formal notice, a letter campaign was launched that asked Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels not to appoint Lynch-Reyes to the permanent superintendency.
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Massey teaches the superintendency course and the principalship course at the University of Minnesota.
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“Directorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/directorship. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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