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Boone

American  
[boon] / bun /

noun

  1. Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.

  2. Pat, born 1934, U.S. singer.

  3. a city in central Iowa.

  4. a town in NW North Carolina.


Boone British  
/ buːn /

noun

  1. Daniel . 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky

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“Part of the question will be who is executing well enough to get capex into the ground,” Boone said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 26, 2026

Boone was underweight, had sore ears and sore eyes when he first came into the RSPCA's care, Murphy explained.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Now for some rapid fire recommendations: Since you’re into theater, my colleague Lisa Boone suggests the Pasadena Playhouse, a Tony Award-winning theater, which is close to home for you.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Chadwick had learned the activism ropes at Relational Investors, where he worked with longtime rabble-rousers Ralph Whitworth and David Batchelder, who themselves had worked with the corporate raider T. Boone Pickens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

“Some parts of Oaxaca go up nine thousand feet,” T. Boone Hallberg, a botanist at the Oaxaca Institute of Technology, told me.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann