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Former World Bank president and Treasury official David Malpass would be a good, and confirmable, choice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Mr. Waugh’s accounts — many confirmable and others not — served as a firsthand guide through some of the successes and failures overseen by Pentagon commanders and CIA intelligence chiefs.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

“With only the fox guarding the henhouse, the outcome is utterly at odds with what BSA itself asserted was necessary for a confirmable plan and is permissible under the bankruptcy code,” the insurers wrote.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2021

"With only the fox guarding the henhouse, the outcome is utterly at odds with what BSA itself asserted was necessary for a confirmable plan and is permissible under the bankruptcy code," the insurers wrote.

From Fox News • Jul. 1, 2021

Many things are true in divinity, which are neither inducible by reason nor confirmable by sense; and many things in philosophy confirmable by sense, yet not inducible by reason.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir