Thesaurus results for SPEAKERS

speakers

noun

plural of speaker

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 spokesmen

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 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 Amenities include a Morso wood stove, a turntable with speakers, and a living room stocked with puzzles and games. — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2026 Older brother Kurt Busch, team owner Joe Gibbs and Kyle’s wife Samantha Busch were among the speakers, as well as current NASCAR drivers Kyle Larson and Austin Dillon. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2026 Its annual World Mental Health Day festival in New York offers an all-day schedule of yoga, art therapy and speakers. — ABC News, 10 Oct. 2026 Gutierrez believes the mix is one reason so many speakers return. — Callum McLennan, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026 For side sleepers and anyone worried about ear health, Laird recommends a soft sleep headband with flat speakers or a pillow speaker because those keep the ear canal more open. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Bose SoundLink Flex Bluetooth Speaker Deal Bose is famous in the audio world, particularly for its headphones and speakers. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026 After hearing from a few speakers outside Culver City’s City Hall, the band of demonstrators marched a few blocks to the offices of Sony Pictures Studios. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 Most Asian language speakers can find assistance in their native language at 888-API-VOTE. — Time Staff, Time, 3 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

Definition of chairpersons

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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
In June, about 70% of voting non-tenure-track faculty approved unionizing under United Faculty-UAW, which seeks to represent roughly 2,700 USC lecturers, researchers, clinicians, librarians and pharmacists.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of lecturers

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Decked out in an oversized chocolate-brown leather jacket, Davidson posed on the red carpet and embraced Variety’s co-presidents Ramin Setoodeh (also the publication’s co-editor-in-chief) and Dea Lawrence.

— Antonio Ferme, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
During the interim period between presidents, the university convened a committee to find short-term solutions to some issues such as the reductions in graduate students and grant funding.

— Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of presidents

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Hastert’s tenure was marked by a shift of power from committee chairmen to GOP leaders, fealty to the Bush administration and an explosion of congressional pet projects known as earmarks.

— Michael Tarm, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
And that means Republican committee chairmen and leaders control any effort to curtail them — not rank-and-file Democrats.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of chairmen

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The candidate forum moderators noted that such proposals have failed in Congress at least 15 times since 2003.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Signpost, our digital information service, has reached 20 million people navigating the hardest moments of their lives, nearly 591,000 of them through one-to-one guidance from moderators, many displaced themselves.

— Jeannie Annan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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