How to Use chancellor in a Sentence

chancellor

noun
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  • Some chancellors shut down encampments with police intervention after a few days.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
  • The chancellor also has launched an internal review of the campus security processes.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
  • These, as the German chancellor said, are the new Nazis.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Who was chancellor of Germany the last time Germany won the World Cup?
    — Dina Bass, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The charges filed against Gow mostly relate to his time as chancellor.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2024
  • 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
  • But the chancellor has proved reluctant to take up a larger role.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Gene Block is the longtime chancellor of my alma mater.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In 1933, Adolf Hitler would be named German chancellor.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The chancellor denied that the incident was a case of police being weaponized.
    — Jarell Skinner-Roy, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2022
  • David Banks, the city’s schools chancellor, blames the current approach to teaching reading.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • On this date: In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
    — Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • His extension was approved by the presidents and chancellors of the 14 SEC schools.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 13 July 2023
  • The board of trustees is expected to select a new chancellor by February.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • If the Pac-12 presidents and chancellors decide not to invite the Aztecs, well, the conference might as well fold up shop and send each school on its merry way.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The associate vice chancellor has worked at the Fort Smith campus for the past nine years, according to the release from the governor's office.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 2 May 2023
  • Scholz himself is polling at one the lowest figures for a German chancellor ever.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • When he was installed as chancellor a year ago, Mr. Hunt took a cautious approach to the nation’s money and abandoned nearly all of Ms. Truss’s plans.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The film stars Kate Winslet as the chancellor of an oligarchy that seems to be in its final moments of power—a development that doesn’t sit well with the chancellor.
    — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Why isn’t everyone working from the same script? Osborne, once chancellor of the Exchequer, is Notting Hill through and through.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The chancellor's son, imprisoned for his crimes, has always sought to unburden himself of the weight of his family name.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The result has been what the chancellor’s critics see as the overly tentative leadership of Mr. Scholz at this moment of crisis.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The system, which was rolled out under former chancellor Michelle Rhee, was one of the first in the country to tie teacher job security and pay to class performance.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • It has only been awarded to three people, all former chancellors.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 2 June 2023
  • Robert Habeck, the vice chancellor of Germany, is listed as a keynote speaker for November.
    — Mark Bergen, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Mone will have served as chancellor for 11 years, the second longest in UWM history and twice as long as the average tenure of a college president.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • The university’s new chancellor is Julio Frenk, a public health researcher serving as president of the University of Miami.
    — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 12 June 2024

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