strine
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of strine
1964; jocular representation of the supposed pronunciation of Australian by uneducated Australian speakers
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Before that, the role was held by Michael Strine, who retired from the bank in early 2021 after taking the role in July 2015.
From Reuters
Leo Strine Jr., former chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court and former chancellor of the Chancery Court, is corporate counsel at Wachtell.
From Washington Post
Will also formerly clerked for Strine.
From Washington Post
The other is Leo Strine, a former Chancellor of the Delaware Chancery Court with 20 years of experience as a judge in the state’s courts, ending with a stint as the Chief Justice of its state Supreme Court before he joined the firm in 2020.
From The Verge
The group includes the former S.E.C. chairs Harvey Pitt, who was appointed by George W. Bush, and Mary Schapiro, who was appointed by Barack Obama, along with top legal experts like Leo Strine Jr., the former chief justice of Delaware’s Supreme Court, and Lucian Bebchuk, a corporate law professor at Harvard.
From New York Times
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