How to Use exec in a Sentence

exec

noun
  • For the most part though, these execs are the outliers.
    — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Of course, that same exec gets down on his knees later to beg her to sign.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
  • One of the good things for me is that there’s a guy called Paul Cheesbrough who was a non-exec for us at the time.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Since then, the company had been in the process of looking for a new exec.
    — Fortune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Facebook media execs want to launch the product in the first half of 2019.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 Dec. 2018
  • The Apple exec would not say what’s coming to the iPad Pro in terms of software.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 23 Apr. 2021
  • And then Cole Galvin, an exec at Netflix, was like, check your email.
    — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2019
  • The exec said that Google would only reveal the prices and release date in the fall during the launch event.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Aug. 2021
  • But the real turning point for me was the way that the execs handled it that day at the TGIF that followed.
    — Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 21 Nov. 2018
  • So, Hawkins purchased a book and read all about one of the greatest baseball execs of all time.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • One of the new hires is from Amazon — the third former Amazon exec Snap has hired this year.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 25 Oct. 2018
  • The cult feel of the first few iPhone events is long gone, but now what these execs say can affect the lives of a billion-plus people.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
  • But even oil execs will admit the best Trini food is found at street stalls.
    — Omar Mouallem, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Ugh, someone needs to run that word by a branding exec.
    — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • In November 2022 the board ousted Chapek and brought Iger back on as chief exec.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Literally, an exec sent over a bunch of DVDs and told them to pick one.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Even a top exec at J.D. Power said he was surprised by the results.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2023
  • When the execs were asked about the potential of a minority stake sale in the future, Lesane left the door open.
    — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But then the pandemic hit, execs opted to stay remote, and the office went up for sale.
    — Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Dallas hired a search firm and plans to hire at least one external exec ...
    — Dallas News, 23 June 2021
  • My exec on the project was Scott Rudin, who later became one of the best and most tasteful of producers.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Amazon execs teased in September 2023 that there could be a spinoff series in the works.
    — Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 12 June 2025
  • Even the exec told her that jumping right into the Sunday-night spotlight might not be wise.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
  • There’s the sort of nonsense comedy with Morgan the TV exec.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • Anything too bizarre or too tragic felt too risky for Fox’s execs.
    — Time, 7 June 2019
  • The exec says the shows were not made by throwing money at a random group of pornographers.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 19 Aug. 2022
  • That led to a later report that some Broncos execs were laughing that Seattle had used the pick to take a punter.
    — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Others are ready for the golf course and family time at a certain point, or to become a coach or exec.
    — James Mirtle, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Google exec Sameer Samat got his foot in the door at the $2 tech giant not with the perfect resume or cover letter—but rather the confidence to cold email its billionaire cofounder Sergey Brin in the middle of the night.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 15 July 2025
  • To representatives like you, no thank you … is probably what some public-media execs have been thinking this week.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 17 July 2025

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