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as in producer
a person who supervises the production of a stage show the director of the drama club's next production will be a student

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Recent Examples of director Jones previously held the position of men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton, as well as Dior and Fendi. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 13 July 2025 Since the company does not have a majority voting standard in uncontested elections, all three directors remain on the board. Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 12 July 2025 Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Congressional Budget Office director and president of the center-right American Action Forum, said the letters were evidence that serious trade talks were not taking place over the past three months. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 July 2025 The family at the heart of the story run a tourism business allowing Cappadocia to feature in a way that naturally chimes with the narrative, but the connection between landscape and plot runs far deeper, series director Murat Saraçoğlu says. Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for director
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Noun
  • Yet by the end, panelists had refocused the spotlight onto pharmacy benefit managers—and provided striking evidence that PBMs, not biotech companies, deserve most of the blame for the anticompetitive practices that lead to high drug prices.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • The Eero Plus subscription is expensive ($10 per month or $100 per year) but includes comprehensive parental controls, advanced security, ad blocking, and even a password manager and VPN service.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • The producers delve into sometimes mainstream, sometimes obscure topics, such as the woman who wanted to run an ultramarathon against a horse and a longform project on amateur ice hockey player Hobey Baker.
    Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • Hannigan, a newer recruit to the Di Bona troupe, noted that the producer’s innate kindness and consideration impressed her from the start.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • More companies are turning to interim executives to observe how a leader handles the job under real conditions before committing to a long-term hire.
    Rhett Power, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2025
  • The Departed director earned his first Emmy nomination in 1995, earning a nod for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Cultural Programming for executive producing the Eric Clapton documentary film Nothing but the Blues.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • No matter how daffy some of it is, the production has the important factor of clarity; a quality that the great stage director Peter Hall used to say is a vital component of any revival of a classic.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Apr. 2025
  • That would be lyricist Fred Ebb, playwright Terrence McNally and original star Chita Rivera, key figures behind the 1993 Broadway musical, alongside composer John Kander and stage director Harold Prince.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Climate United Fund and other nonprofits in March sued the Environmental Protection Agency, its administrator Lee Zeldin and Citibank, which held the program’s money.
    Michael Phillis, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • The closure of Jackson South’s labor and delivery unit is the latest in South Florida and comes at a time when many hospitals across the country have closed their maternity wards, with administrators often citing costs and staffing issues.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • But a longstanding argument against any updates to the sculpture, said Dan Wenk, the former superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, is that the piece of art is already finished, visually and rhetorically.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 5 July 2025
  • Adam Friday resigned as acting superintendent for the sanitation department, effective June 3, two weeks after the incident with Street Commissioner Brandon Downey, town records show.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Gartner was Rodriguez-Kennedy’s immediate supervisor.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • Later in the video, Bennett speaks to a supervisor outside the police station.
    Daniel McGowan, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025

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