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as in chairperson
a person in charge of a meeting
the speaker announced that it was time for the club to move on to another matter
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as in spokesperson
a person who speaks for another or for a group
unofficially chose a speaker to broach the subject with the supervisor of the department
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as in lecturer
a person who makes usually formal public speeches
the after-dinner speaker was a career diplomat who regaled us with humorous anecdotes from his travels abroad
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Additional breakout workshop speakers included Kathy Iandoli (journalist and author), Alexis Johnson (Interscope), Gloria Kaba (producer/engineer), Danielle Geiger (Atlantic Records) and Marissa Loil (UTA).
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James Dinh, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2024
Other speakers include Mel Eslyn, the President of Duplass Brothers Productions, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld creator Isaure Pisani-Ferry, and Joachim Landau and Benjamin Hoffman, creators of Canal+-Showmax drama Spinners.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
The second ceremony, at 7 p.m., is a candlelight vigil with speakers memorializing the day.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
On Tuesday, the second night of this year’s Democratic National Convention, when the Obamas were the much awaited headline speakers, their party’s barely manageable pluralism was on particularly exuberant display.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
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James Dinh, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2024
Other speakers include Mel Eslyn, the President of Duplass Brothers Productions, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld creator Isaure Pisani-Ferry, and Joachim Landau and Benjamin Hoffman, creators of Canal+-Showmax drama Spinners.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
The second ceremony, at 7 p.m., is a candlelight vigil with speakers memorializing the day.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
On Tuesday, the second night of this year’s Democratic National Convention, when the Obamas were the much awaited headline speakers, their party’s barely manageable pluralism was on particularly exuberant display.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
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“Speaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speaker. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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