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The Fed's latest meeting minutes set to release in the week ahead will be one of the final ones under Powell's chairmanship, which comes to an end in May.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2026 -
At the same time, Warsh’s ability to use the chairmanship to command deference on the FOMC can only go so far.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Earlier in his tenure as coordinator of the rotating presidency, Voltaire dismissed Prime Minister Garry Conille and Foreign Minister Dominique Dupuy, moves that deepened political turmoil and eroded public confidence.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2026
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In addition to a count of making threats against the president and successors to the presidency, Mathre is also charged with receipt and distribution of child pornography.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026
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Massey teaches the superintendency course and the principalship course at the University of Minnesota.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
3 Oct. 2025
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As the superintendency reports, continued archaeological investigations will hopefully reveal more about the tomb and the surrounding necropolis, which may illuminate the social history of the ancient Neapolitan community that used it.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 July 2024
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Filmmaking is blind instinct, petty calculations, smooth generalship, daydreaming, pig-headedness, grace, bluff, risk.—
Susan Sontag,
Vogue,
26 Oct. 2025
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While his questionable generalship would be memorialized in a long poem by Alfred Tennyson, his other legacy is giving the world the sweater named after his title.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
29 Sep. 2025
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Aguilar was charged with driving while impaired in Cabarrus County in 2020, during Cooper’s governorship, but failed to appear in court in 2022, according to court records.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The California governorship is not usually a role of international leadership, but Newsom has given it the appearance of one.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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This brings the note of tragic kingship.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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Trump, by contrast, ordered the capture of a leader already under narcoterrorism indictment and framed it as a drug bust and accountability for crimes, yet his opponents denounce him as aspiring to kingship and dictatorship.—
Paul Vallas,
Twin Cities,
6 Jan. 2026
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An additional $5 million will fund a deanship, $3 million will support a chair in biomedical engineering, and $5 million will establish a research fund for faculty fellowships, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaboration.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The royal government was also known as a dictatorship for banning political parties, suppressing revolts and political opposition, controlling the press and having its own secret police force called SAVAK.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Throughout, Hadi calls attention to the brutality that’s endemic in Iraqi daily life under a dictatorship.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Captainship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/captainship. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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