speakers

plural of speaker
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as in chairpersons
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 lecturers
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 speakers Additional speakers included members of the Ben Crump civil rights law firm, who stood by Frimpong's relatives. — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026 Some Personal Robotics Group staffers previously worked in Amazon's Lab126 R&D unit, which has been behind many of Amazon's most successful consumer hardware products, like the Kindle e-reader, Echo smart speakers, Fire TV and Fire Tablet. — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2026 The battery lasts a full workday and then some, the speakers sound good, and the chassis is downright gorgeous. — Marshall Honorof, PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2026 More than forty artists and speakers putting their names and platforms behind Palestinian liberation. — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026 Some of them are indigenous languages with small numbers of speakers that are at risk of dying out. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Nov. 2026 This wasn’t lost on speakers at a ceremony the carrier had prior to takeoff. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026 Several speakers noted that while fish species are declining dramatically, about 80% of the water that’s diverted and pumped in California is used for agriculture, and vast quantities of almonds and pistachios are being shipped overseas. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 Echoing other speakers at the one-day forum, Guerra called for a reset in the sector. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
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Noun
  • There have been four different PCB chairpersons since 2022 and each has brought in a different vision and a new set of executives to run the board.
    — Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The existing committee chairpersons are tasked with facilitating meetings and placing items on their agendas.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • The brothers, through their spokesmen, denied the allegations.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Officials and spokesmen from around the state and various agencies couldn't be unavailable enough for comment.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Academic titleholders at Cornell -- including professors, senior lecturers, librarians, archivists and others -- are eligible to be senators, who serve three-year terms.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • After more than a year of negotiations and a proposal from the CSU to increase salaries by 3%, the California Faculty Association — which represents about 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches — declared impasse in July.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Peña's removal bars him from the lifetime Senate seat granted to elected former presidents under Paraguay's Constitution, denying him the parliamentary immunity that would accompany it.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Young served in the Civil Rights office herself, across the administrations of five presidents.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • While Michael Jordan never retired anyone’s number during his years as the Hornets owner, Hornets’ co-chairmen Rick Schnall and Gabe Plotkin have now retired two.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Corporate records show a Cambodian firm by that name, listing both Chen Zhi and Chen Sokly as chairmen.
    — Isabel Vincent, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In the r/AO3 community on Reddit, moderators have set up megathreads for the purpose of helping members find and share copies of their favorite stories.
    — Angela Yang, NBC news, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Reddit moderators also checked additional photos and Apple paperwork provided by the owner.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Speakers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speakers. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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