Benton
Americannoun
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Thomas Hart Old Bullion, 1782–1858, U.S. political leader.
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his grandnephew Thomas Hart, 1889–1975, U.S. painter and lithographer.
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a city in central Arkansas.
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Example Sentences
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That’s why legal briefs in the case are riddled with citations to an obscure 1915 book by a Boston lawyer named Josiah Henry Benton, who argued that historians had overlooked the practice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Host Benton Hershaw and openers Ruby Setnik and Sam Campbell absolutely connected and killed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Benton had taken particular note of a plant making a petroleum product called carbon black, which “burnt thousands of cubic feet of gas every minute, a great, wasteful, extravagant burning of resources for momentary profit.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Work is ongoing to effectively double the footprint of their existing training ground at Benton, but the hierarchy recognise a new state-of-the-art base will ultimately be needed elsewhere because of the site's limitations.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
“Reverend,” Benton interrupted, “I want to do this. I want to go out there and change people. It just wasn’t possible where you sent me. That’s not the way it worked.”
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
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