Hadrian
Americannoun
noun
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Last week, the Defense Department announced an agreement with Hadrian, an advanced manufacturing start-up, to help improve the production of submarines.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
After crushing a Jewish revolt in the second century, Emperor Hadrian sought to sever the Jewish connection to the land by renaming the province “Syria Palaestina”—a name derived from the long-vanished Philistines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
He entombed his wife in the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 16, 2023
Together, they undertook a yearslong study of Villa Adriana, the 2nd-century dwelling of the Emperor Hadrian near Rome, which recorded important information about how an on-site temple employed sunlight during a solstice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
Appius Claudius and the Emperor Hadrian, according to Seneca, could recite two thousand words in the order they had heard them, and afterwards repeat them from the end to the beginning.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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