Abram

[ ey-bruhm ]

noun

1. an earlier name of the Biblical Abraham.
2. a first name: from a Hebrew word meaning “exalted father.”

Example Sentences

Amber Gilbert also announced their son’s arrival in a joint post, writing: “We will never forget the way you got here and we can’t wait to see what you do here. Abram Howell Gilbert 10.11.24”

From Los Angeles Times

A large number of Strauss' students and followers became prominent neoconservatives, including Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Francis Fukuyama, Harvey Mansfield, Gary Schmitt, Walter Berns and Abram Shulsky, who all later achieved notoriety either as political operatives or publicists advocating for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq based on false claims of hidden weapons of mass destruction.

From Salon

If Strauss, an unworldly academic lecturer, had no conceivable link with the neoconservative project to unleash redemptive war and exalt untrammeled executive power, why did two of his followers, neocon operatives Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt — who had both held government positions in foreign intelligence — write a 1999 essay crediting Strauss with having helped them conceptualize intelligence matters?

From Salon

Brett McGurk, the top White House official on Middle East policy, and Abram Paley, the deputy special envoy for Iran, attended the talks in Oman.

From New York Times

Co-author Professor Nerilie Abram, also from ANU, said human-caused climate change is contributing to longer droughts in southwestern and eastern Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin.

From Science Daily