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The inquiry puts the world’s largest crypto exchange back in the legal spotlight after its founder Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, received a pardon from President Trump in October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The pardon caps a monthslong effort by Zhao, a billionaire commonly known as CZ in the crypto world and one of the biggest names in the industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Commonly called "CZ", Zhao has a $33 billion fortune, according to Forbes magazine.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2024
But Mr. Zhao, who goes by the initials CZ, is already looking to the future.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
If TZ is to the right of CZ, C.E. is East.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
Olsen: And now to start talking about “Feud,” the group of women that the show is about — Babe Paley, who you play, but also C.Z.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Among her other roles include her Emmy-nominated turn as deputy district attorney Miriam Grasso in “Murder One” and Capt. C.Z.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
“We won’t support people who lobby against other industry players behind their backs,” C.Z. later tweeted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
As much as his pages promoted socialites such as Nan Kempner, Mercedes Bass, Gloria Vanderbilt, C.Z.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2015
During the early evening he lay on his back in a stout Mission rocking-chair on the front porch of House 35, Empire, C.Z.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson
This equation can be expressed as ax + by + cz + d = 0, where d = −ax0 − by0 − cz0.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
C or cz is pronounced as English ts; cs as English ch; ds as English j; zs as French j; gy as dy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
English Sounds. c ts ch h cz ch rz r followed by the French j sz sh szcz shch w v ż j In this transliteration ch retains its ordinary English sound.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The combination cz, for instance, corresponds to our ch, and the Polish cognomen Czajkowski becomes much less exasperating when spelled, as it would be in English, "Chycovsky."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
The Bohemian cz is equivalent to the English ch in check; so in their national name, Czekhes.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob
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