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Cobb

American  
[kob] / kɒb /

noun

  1. Howell 1815–68, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1849–51.

  2. Irvin S(hrewsbury), 1876–1944, U.S. humorist and writer.

  3. Ty(rus Raymond) the Georgia Peach, 1886–1961, U.S. baseball player.

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William Cobb and Todd Weaver, Freeport’s vice president and senior counsel, respectively, emailed the EPA in March 2025 to request a reprieve from the Clean Air Act.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

And I remember my mentor, who saw the original 1949 production, holding up Lee J. Cobb as the greatest ever Willy Loman.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

Starboard leveraged a roughly $350 million investment to nominate two directors for CarMax’s board, Starboard CEO and Chief Investment Officer Jeffrey Smith and William Cobb, the chairman and CEO of home repair company Frontdoor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Activist investor Starboard Value sent a letter to incoming CEO Keith Barr nominating William Cobb and Jeffrey Smith to the company’s board.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Mrs. Cobb sat in her horsehair chair and pointed to her organ impatiently.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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