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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of chair.

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Examples

  • McCain chaired Gramm's short-lived presidential campaign in 1996; Gramm is co-chair of McCain's current effort.

    Eschaton 2008

  • The one-time event turned into an annual one: Chanin chaired last year's conference on American policy toward AIDS in developing countries, with a keynote by Doctors Without Borders founder Bernard Kouchner, and he is co-chairing this year's conference on human trafficking, which includes a semester-long academic course, an art exhibit and film festival, and travel grants for 75 students from around the country to join hundreds from the Chicago area.

    USATODAY.com - Students' path to excellence crosses oceans, borders 2006

  • His campaign manager routinely lobbied for corporations who had business before the Senate Commerce Committee that McCain chaired.

    Obama Takes The Gloves Off (Again) - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • These already exist; they're called chaired positions.

    Question of the Day Luis von Ahn 2009

  • These already exist; they're called chaired positions.

    Question of the Day Luis von Ahn 2009

  • Please let the operator know you wish to participate in the West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. conference call chaired by Mr. Hank Ketcham, Chairman, President & CEO.

    unknown title 2011

  • On that day there will be a conference call chaired by Terry Burman at 8.30 a.m.

    unknown title 2009

  • Neither mass meetings nor committee meetings were "chaired" in the usual way of academic meetings.

    A Special Supplement: The Old School at The New School Diamond, Stanley 1970

  • Mr. Gladstone was "chaired," or drawn by horses through the town, seated on

    The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

  • In Yorkshire, the event was celebrated by the victorious party with mad rejoicings, not the least remarkable being the behaviour of the people of Wakefield who, unable to do honour in person to the successful candidate, seized upon an old woman who lived on Clayton Hill and "chaired" her all round the town with wild enthusiasm.

    The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

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