How to Use chancellor in a Sentence
chancellor
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The first chancellor to call for such a vote was Willy Brandt in 1972.
—H.j. Mai, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
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These, as the German chancellor said, are the new Nazis.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
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David Banks, the chancellor of New York City schools, addressed the crowd.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
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Taking a stand for them shouldn’t be this hard for a chancellor with one foot out the door.
—David Wilezol, National Review, 13 Sep. 2021
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Mone is stepping down as chancellor at the end of this school year.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2024
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Who was chancellor of Germany the last time Germany won the World Cup?
—Dina Bass, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
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And for now, Germany has a chancellor who appears ready to fight for it.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
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The charges filed against Gow mostly relate to his time as chancellor.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2024
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David Banks, the city’s schools chancellor, is planning to force the nation’s largest school system to take a new approach.
—Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 8 June 2023
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In a further sign the chancellor and his family are now under the UK.
—Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 8 Apr. 2022
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But the chancellor has proved reluctant to take up a larger role.
—Erika Solomon, New York Times, 14 May 2023
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The new chancellor then returned to parliament to be sworn in.
—Geir Moulson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
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Rishi Sunak, who was chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sajid Javid, who was the health secretary.
—New York Times, 7 July 2022
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Gene Block is the longtime chancellor of my alma mater.
—Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
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Jones will stay seated as chancellor until June 30, Killeen said in an email to the Tribune.
—Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024
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Savio, the chancellor noted, climbed onto the car to give a speech but first took off his shoes to avoid damaging its roof.
—Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 June 2024
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To honor Yan, the chancellor said, the campus will ring the bell tower at 1:02 p.m. on Wednesday and hold a moment of silence.
—Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
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Adolf Hitler, the new chancellor, was taking a leaf out of Alabama's book.
—Jim Beckerman, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2022
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But the Tennessee Supreme Court took issue with that part of the chancellor’s order.
—Travis Loller, ajc, 30 Sep. 2022
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She also was appointed to the honorary post of chancellor at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
—Mark Sherman The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
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In 1933, Adolf Hitler would be named German chancellor.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
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The chancellor denied that the incident was a case of police being weaponized.
—Jarell Skinner-Roy, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2022
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The new chancellor wanted to put UMass Amherst on a path to the top 20 public universities in the country, Paik said.
—Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
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The party has a candidate running for German chancellor in elections at the end of the month.
—Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
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David Banks, the city’s schools chancellor, blames the current approach to teaching reading.
—James Barron, New York Times, 15 May 2023
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The meeting with the chancellor isn't being considered a win, Klein said.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
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Opinion polls show Scholz leading the field with about 25% of the vote and the odds-on favorite to emerge as the next chancellor in a three-party coalition with the Greens and probably the Free Democrats.
—Erik Kirschbaum, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
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The press conference followed a meeting between Mr. Biden and Scholz, the first since the German chancellor took office at the end of last year.
—Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2022
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Loading your audio article Rich Lyons is Cal’s fifth chancellor in the past two decades but nothing like his predecessors.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
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Musk has endorsed AfD and live-streamed an interview with Alice Weidel, the party’s candidate for chancellor, earlier this month.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2025
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