Petrie
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“It was unmistakable, the sense of impending opportunity,” said Jon Hughes, the chief executive of boutique energy investment bank Petrie Partners, who visited the bustling hotel last week.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Lisa Petrie and others have called for tougher penalties for people caught with knives.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
To those viewers, she was indistinguishable from Laura Petrie, everybody’s favorite perky wife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and they couldn’t get over the thought of Laura divorcing Van Dyke’s charming, devoted Rob.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
I loved watching Van Dyke’s character, Rob Petrie, manage high jinks at work and home.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2026
As soon as Professor Petrie had settled down to the excavation of the mound, a few months after his discovery, the evidence of inscriptions was added to the evidence of potsherds.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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