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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
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (2nd L), Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (2nd R), and Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi (R) walk inside a building in Muscat, Oman, on June 22, 2026.
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Khaled Wassef,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Writer, editor and speaker Cheryl Russell is a Laguna Woods Village resident.
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Cheryl Russell,
Oc Register,
28 June 2026
Sound tuning and aspects of the speaker design, meanwhile, have been entrusted to audiophile sound tuner Benno Baun Medgaard, the man also behind the tuning of ultra high-end speakers from Gryphon and Raidho.
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John Archer,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Music sounds fine on the phone's stereo speakers, though the bottom speaker mostly carries the load.
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Florence Ion,
PC Magazine,
27 June 2026
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Khaled Wassef,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Writer, editor and speaker Cheryl Russell is a Laguna Woods Village resident.
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Cheryl Russell,
Oc Register,
28 June 2026
Sound tuning and aspects of the speaker design, meanwhile, have been entrusted to audiophile sound tuner Benno Baun Medgaard, the man also behind the tuning of ultra high-end speakers from Gryphon and Raidho.
—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Music sounds fine on the phone's stereo speakers, though the bottom speaker mostly carries the load.
—
Florence Ion,
PC Magazine,
27 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speaker
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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 Department of Homeland Security is changing the guidelines for Iran’s national soccer team ahead of its third World Cup match on Friday to accommodate extra time afforded to other countries in the tournament, an agency spokesperson said.
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Dawn Foster, a spokesperson for the Sacramento SPCA, brought Rooster, a herding mix, to the conference.
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Jordan McLeod is a former meteorology lecturer at the University of South Alabama and future doctoral student.
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Given that the early days of the conflict cost $1 billion per day, Linda Bilmes, a Harvard Kennedy School senior public policy lecturer and a federal budget expert, said spending is more likely to total the $200 billion in additional funds the Pentagon requested back in March.
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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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Harry's spokesman said Monday that an assessment by the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, or Ravec, which determines security provisions for senior royals and other public figures had not yet taken place.
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Police spokesman Nahum Daso told The Associated Press that hours after the attack 10 people were rescued.
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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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“Speaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speaker. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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