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At Politico, his responsibilities have straddled both editorial and business development, including expanding Politico’s brand presence and journalism at global conferences on security and energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

And while it highlights milestones in Chirino’s 50-year career, it also showcases a story of hope familiar to many whose lives have straddled the Florida Straits.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

All British women, they have straddled the line between lighthearted playfulness and kitsch so successfully they now produce luxury accessory lines that have launched global fashion empires.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2015

At 115 years and nearly three months, Ms. Morano is the oldest person in Europe, the fifth oldest in the world and one of only a handful of people whose lives have straddled three centuries.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2015

This manuscript wouldn’t make it past a junior agent now, thanks to the many public battles fought over books that have straddled the border of reporting and imagination.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 3, 2014