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Nathaniel

American  
[nuh-than-yuhl] / nəˈθæn yəl /

noun

  1. Bartholomew.

  2. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “gift of God.”


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“The RSF can’t project force any other way right now, so they’re lobbing drones like aerial IEDs,” said Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

Circuit Court, and it was argued in April by Nathaniel Zelinsky, from the Washington Litigation Group.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

In 2022, the researchers traveled aboard the now-decommissioned U.S. icebreaker, the Nathaniel B. Palmer, to the Dotson Ice Shelf in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

“The Scarlet Letter” has engraved Nathaniel Hawthorne’s name into our national psyche as a critic of tyrannical small-town morality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Of course you know the minister feels guilty and Hester feels guilty, but Nathaniel wants us to know this is a big deal.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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