Craig
Americannoun
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Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English stage designer, producer, and author.
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a male given name: from a Welsh family name meaning “rock.”
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Chief Executive Craig Billings said the results reflect continued healthy demand throughout the business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
“We call it our Goldilocks discovery,” said Craig Slavtcheff, the company’s top research-and-development officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
“In general, yes, if benefit costs are accelerating, it limits what is available for salary increases,” said Craig Copeland, director of wealth-benefits research with the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Michael Eisenberg, who co-owns the swim equipment business with his brother, Craig, worries about losing clientele.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
I spent a weekend visiting Craig at Princeton, where he seemed to have slipped into a productive rhythm of playing basketball, taking classes, and hanging out at a campus center designed for minority students.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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It is like some unseen ethereal ocean whose silver surf forever breaks in song; forever breaks on valley, hill, and craig, in ten thousand symphonies.
From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Taylor, Robert L.
On the far side of the deep, sombre vale a towering craig rose wall-like, sheer up, overshadowing the soft, green pasture deep down at the bottom of the yawning gulch.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell
Ay," he replied, "there is as much between the craig and the woodie* as there is between the cup and the lip.
From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
"From the verge!—umph—And what possessed you dumosa pendere procul de rupe?—though dumosa is not the appropriate epithet—what the deil, man, tempted ye to the verge of the craig?"
From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
I have a rope, Roger," Oswald began, "that will reach from the turret to the foot of the craig.
From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Peacock, Ralph
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