as in chairperson
a person in charge of a meeting
I was unaccustomed to being the presider of anything larger than a departmental meeting
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Judy was a board chairperson of the film festival’s committee.
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Robin Rue Simmons, chairperson for the Evanston Reparations Committee, anticipated there might be backlash against the program.
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The film, a reimagining of John Alan Schwartz’s 1978 film, follows a website content moderator (Ferreira) who becomes obsessed with a series of disturbing videos that seem to recreate scenes from the iconic Faces of Death film series.
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Unlike moderators at for-profit platforms, Wikipedia cannot simply hire more administrators.
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And this time—unlike the first year of the Chávez administration, when some Venezuelans still saw the new president as a source of hope — neither oil revenues nor all the international aid combined will be enough to mitigate the effects of the most powerful earthquake in a century.
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Republican legislators, taking their lead from a president who sees half the nation as his personal enemy, have put their own party’s interests over the republic’s.
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Jeff Pointer, chairman of the Mosier Valley Property Owners Association, asked for it as part of the plan.
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Polestar is majority owned by Geely, a Chinese automaker, and its chairman Li Shufu.
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“Presider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presider. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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