as in administrative
suited for or relating to the directing of things
the executive skills needed to manage a large business office
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as in manager
a person who manages or directs something
a program that teaches company executives how to better manage their staffs
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Recent Examples of executive
Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Mar. 2026
Fred Bernstein, David Duchovny, Tiffany Kuzon, Jeff David, Barbakow and Cohen are producing, with Cox serving as executive producer.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026
Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
Scott executive-produces for KeyScott Entertainment and Canyon View Media.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
The future robot gym Lilienthal will reportedly co-lead the initiative along with colleague Lorenzo Masia, PhD, a professor of intelligent biorobotic systems, and executive director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI).
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Mar. 2026
Fred Bernstein, David Duchovny, Tiffany Kuzon, Jeff David, Barbakow and Cohen are producing, with Cox serving as executive producer.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
The series is executive produced by Harjo, Garrett Basch, Hawke, Ryan Hawke, Duffy Boudreau and Scott Teems.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
Scott executive-produces for KeyScott Entertainment and Canyon View Media.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for executive
Adjective
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McKinley was handed a letter of termination from the president of the school, and placed on administrative leave.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Mar. 2026
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Department leaders placed the officer involved on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated, per department policy.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
Adjective
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There was a short uptick in form under Dyche, but Forest decided to make another managerial switch in February with Vitor Pereira appointed as the club’s fourth manager of the campaign with the backdrop of the club just one place above the relegation zone.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Don Kelly was given the interim managerial job after Derek Shelton was fired after a 12-26 start.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Hoping to lessen the impact on interim and permanent housing as much as possible, the supervisors slashed $27 million from outreach and navigation programs and cut by two-thirds the county program that moves people out of street encampments into shelters.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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The alteration was discovered in a copy of the Book of the Dead (a tome filled with spells meant to aid the dead in their passage to the afterlife) that is believed to have been commissioned for a royal archive supervisor named Rambose.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Executive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/executive. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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