Kidd
Americannoun
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Michael Milton Greenwald, 1919–2007, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
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William Captain Kidd, 1645?–1701, Scottish navigator and privateer: hanged for piracy.
noun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Kidd is obsessed in particular with Oxbridge dons, as the academics at these two British universities are known in demotic parlance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Mr. Kidd describes this as “a spectacular breach of conventional academic protocol,” especially as the dons conferred unopposed—on the same day—an honorary degree on Alessandro Pertini, the 88-year-old Italian president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Just look at Capt. William Kidd, who was hired by the British government to hunt pirates, but was later executed for being one.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
But Mark Cuban, the Mavericks’ former majority owner who currently owns 27% of the team, indicated March 31 during a podcast that Kidd was complicit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Lots of people thought Captain Kidd might have buried loot on the Elizabeths, well within his stomping grounds, but no one who had gone digging for treasure out here had ever found any.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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