as in executive
a person who manages or directs something
a restaurant where the city's top execs like to have power lunches
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Recent Examples of exec
At a meeting last week with the White House, execs from tech companies, including xAI, signed nonbinding pledges to supply their own power for their facilities.
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Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
California solar exec sentenced in scheme An attorney for a California solar power company has been sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison for helping orchestrate a $1 billion fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026
Robinson helped finance and launch Morgan Creek in 1988 with experienced Hollywood exec Joe Roth.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
The culling perfectly played into ongoing fears that AI automation is coming for white-collar jobs, a major job market and economic disruption that workers are becoming increasingly worried about — and which clearly has execs salivating.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
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Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
California solar exec sentenced in scheme An attorney for a California solar power company has been sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison for helping orchestrate a $1 billion fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026
Robinson helped finance and launch Morgan Creek in 1988 with experienced Hollywood exec Joe Roth.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
The culling perfectly played into ongoing fears that AI automation is coming for white-collar jobs, a major job market and economic disruption that workers are becoming increasingly worried about — and which clearly has execs salivating.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exec
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Lucy Maguire is Features Director at Vogue Business, writing and commissioning features across all verticals, with a focus on fashion industry moves, international fashion weeks, trends and consumer behaviour, alongside interviews with key designers, founders and executives.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
12 Mar. 2026
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To stay, he and other club executives might be asked to move to Las Vegas.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Panama’s Jonathan Araúz exchanged shouts and pushes with manager José Mayorga when the pinch hitter returned to the dugout after grounding out leading off the ninth.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Mar. 2026
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It’s taken Santiago Espinal less than three weeks to make an impression on Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Robust vaccine schedule Erica Pan, California’s top public health officer and director of the state Department of Public Health, said the West Coast Health Alliance is defending science by recommending a more robust vaccine schedule than the federal government.—
Angela Hart,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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In fact, the director was egging me on, encouraging me to go further with the hunching and muttering.—
Andrew Martin,
Vogue,
9 Mar. 2026
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One administrator told me that he was baffled, but that the embassy staff seemed confident that something would come of it.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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Executive associate athletic director Courtney Vinson, the men’s basketball administrator, will lead the program until a new coach is hired.—
Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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The superintendent’s office is supposed to return with a plan to carry out the intent of the resolution.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Carvalho has been superintendent of the LAUSD since February 2022.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Exec.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exec. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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