Coates
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Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
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Joseph Gordon, 1878–1943, New Zealand statesman: prime minister 1925–28.
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Example Sentences
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But the conflict in the Middle East has thrown all this into disarray, according to Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a Middle East expert at the Baker Institute in Texas.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
“Their relationship is a professional relationship. They don’t do social stuff together,” said Victoria Coates, who was deputy national security adviser for the Middle East and North Africa during Trump’s first term.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
A race-relations pessimist who invokes the ideas of other writers of that ilk—Ta-Nehisi Coates, for instance, and Isabel Wilkerson—he detects in America a “fatigue with the pursuit of equality and inclusion.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
“Greenland, especially, has really touched a nerve. That’s unfortunate coming right in the run-up to the Olympics,” said Coates Ulrichsen, who was born in Greece to English and Norwegian parents.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
Paul Coates spoke to me, asked me to fly out and be on his interview program.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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