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Nathaniel

American  
[nuh-than-yuhl] / nəˈθæn jəl /

noun

  1. Bartholomew.

  2. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “gift of God.”


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“The RSF can’t project force any other way right now, so they’re lobbing drones like aerial IEDs,” said Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

Circuit Court, and it was argued in April by Nathaniel Zelinsky, from the Washington Litigation Group.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Nathaniel Padua, 20, joined Complete last year after stints at fast-food restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Nathaniel Fillmore, PhD, at Harvard Medical School, also served as co-senior author.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

And I’d known Nathaniel since I was a baby, so I could roll my sleeves up above my elbows in his presence.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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