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Examples of CEO in a Sentence
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Elon Musk claimed victory last week at Tesla’s annual meeting, where shareholders affirmed a pay package worth as much as $55.8 billion for their cult leader and CEO.
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Peter Green, Quartz, 23 June 2024
Baum is the president and CEO of Educational Alliance, a settlement house serving Lower Manhattan since 1889.
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Rich Baum, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
By Billy Perrigo June 23, 2024 7:00 AM EDT
Hanging on the wall of Anthropic’s offices in San Francisco in early May, a stone’s throw from the conference room where CEO Dario Amodei would shortly sit for an interview with TIME, was a framed meme.
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Billy Perrigo, TIME, 23 June 2024
The plays are all written by Connecticut residents past and present — including New Yorker short story writer and cartoonist James Thurber, WTNH news anchor Dennis House, and mystery novelist and former Mintz + Hoke CEO Chris Knopf, according to a press release.
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Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2024
During its most recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said more than half of the Fortune 100 companies have already bought an Apple Vision Pro.
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Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 10 June 2024
Earlier this year, luxury German automaker Mercedes delayed its electrification plans by five years, with CEO Ola Kaellenius telling investors the company was still committed to producing combustion engine cars.
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Morgan Korn, ABC News, 9 June 2024
Who is the richest person in Charlotte? Of the eight billionaires who live in North Carolina, only one calls Charlotte home: Red Ventures co-founder and CEO Ric Elias.
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Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 7 June 2024
Cristo Rey Miami High School, which opened two years ago in North Miami, received $2.1 million from the 55-year-old billionaire founder and CEO of Citadel, who relocated his financial empire’s headquarters to Miami from Chicago in 2022.
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Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
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Word History
Etymology
chief executive officer
First Known Use
1914, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near CEO
Cite this Entry
“CEO.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CEO. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
CEO
noun
: the executive with the chief decision-making power in an organization or business
Etymology
chief executive officer
Legal Definition
CEO
noun
: the executive with the chief decision-making authority in an organization or business
Etymology
chief executive officer
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