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as in chairperson
a person in charge of a meeting
the speaker announced that it was time for the club to move on to another matter
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as in spokesperson
a person who speaks for another or for a group
unofficially chose a speaker to broach the subject with the supervisor of the department
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as in lecturer
a person who makes usually formal public speeches
the after-dinner speaker was a career diplomat who regaled us with humorous anecdotes from his travels abroad
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Recent Examples of speaker
The speaker is Greg Reitman, who founded the Blue Water Institute in 2020 and serves as its chairman of the board and executive director.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
For audio, the MacBook Neo sports just two speakers, compared with the Air’s four-speaker setup.
—Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
Go hard at the self-serving Secret Society of the AG, Senate president and House speaker blocking the will of the people.
—Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
Several speakers, including Twin Rivers United Educators union president Brittoni Ward, California Teachers Association President David Goldberg and several other local union leaders spoke to the crowd from atop a truck in the middle of the street.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
For audio, the MacBook Neo sports just two speakers, compared with the Air’s four-speaker setup.
—Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
Go hard at the self-serving Secret Society of the AG, Senate president and House speaker blocking the will of the people.
—Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
Several speakers, including Twin Rivers United Educators union president Brittoni Ward, California Teachers Association President David Goldberg and several other local union leaders spoke to the crowd from atop a truck in the middle of the street.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speaker
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In accepting the Milestone Award tonight at the 37th annual Producers Guild Awards, producer Jason Blum thanked many, beginning with his longtime friend Barry Diller, the billionaire chairperson of IAC, who presented him with the prize.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2026
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Franklin Myers, chairperson of the company’s board since 2019, was appointed interim CEO of the company.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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An OpenAI spokesperson pointed CNN to Altman’s public statements.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
4 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, Shabir Mir, a Gilgit-Baltistan government spokesperson, said Monday the situation was under control and that the curfew would remain in place until Wednesday.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026
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Al-Marashi is an associate history professor at California State University San Marcos and a visiting lecturer in journalism and media studies at San Diego State University.—
Ibrahim Al-Marashi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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Jack Horner, a renowned paleontologist who worked as a consultant on all seven films in the Jurassic Park franchise, is no longer employed as a lecturer at Chapman University, following his name appearing several times in the Epstein files.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Mar. 2026
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Matt Keller, the district’s media and public relations supervisor, served as the moderator, telling the group that employees had emailed more than 100 questions.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
5 Mar. 2026
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Columnist Gregg Doyel was there and served as the evening's moderator.—
Evan Frank,
IndyStar,
5 Mar. 2026
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Sterling, the city spokesman, declined to describe the specific reasons those arrested came under suspicion and did not address why 8 out of 9 of them were Black.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Earlier in the day, Sri Lankan Navy spokesman Budhika Sampath said rescue teams initially spotted oil patches and life rafts on the surface but could not immediately locate the vessel.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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The central issue in Learning Resources--the authority of presidents to usurp congressional powers--would have never arisen, there would have been no court ruling or case to now discuss, if Republicans in Congress had defended their legislative authority from the outset.—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
2 Mar. 2026
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Trump expresses confidence that his nominee to become Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, can unleash an economic bonanza by jettisoning what the president sees as the central bank’s hidebound reluctance to slash interest rates.—
Paul Wiseman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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Lian Jianchang, chairman of Long Bamboo Technology Group, told Xinhua that the company would focus on the lightweight, green, and biodegradable characteristics of bamboo.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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Still, the good news this week in Chicago was the groundbreaking for the new Chicago Fire stadium, privately funded to the tune of some $750 million by the Chicago Fire’s owner and chairman, Joe Mansueto.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Speaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speaker. Accessed 8 Mar. 2026.
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