Gates

American  

[geyts] / geɪts /

noun

1. Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.

2. William Bill, born 1956, U.S. entrepreneur.

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Gates British  

/ ɡeɪts /

noun

1. Bill, full name William Henry Gates. born 1955, US computer-software executive and philanthropist; founder (1976) of Microsoft Corporation

2. Henry Louis. born 1950, US scholar and critic, who pioneered African-American studies in such works as Figures in Black (1987)

3. Horatio. ?1728–1806, American Revolutionary general: defeated the British at Saratoga (1777)

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Example Sentences

Louise Gates, Phoenix Garden manager, said she often found phones "thrown over the fence from the night before" when she unlocked the garden in the morning.

From BBC

In 2014, Epstein lured a young European model with false promises of development work in Africa with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Campbell’s biography of James Baldwin, “Talking at the Gates,” was reissued in a new edition in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal

It makes sense—after all, Mr. Gates’s products succeeded not because everyone got together and agreed that they should adopt MS-DOS but because smart design met human need.

From The Wall Street Journal

Like Orwellian newspeak, they instill nonsense like pregnant men and an existential climate apocalypse until even Bill Gates calls bull hockey.

From The Wall Street Journal

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