Carleton
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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SOMERS, N.Y.—Robert Carleton was getting the mail one day in April when he saw a group of teenage boys sprinting away from nearby woods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Paulson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Carleton College.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Brian Hebert, an avocational paleontologist from Nova Scotia, located the small skull inside a fossilized tree stump during a field season led by Hillary Maddin, a professor of paleontology at Carleton University.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
Despite having a smaller economy than the US, it still has some leverage, argued Fen Hampson, a professor of international affairs at Carleton University and expert on international negotiations.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
Ekman had tracked down a hundred thousand feet of film that had been shot by the virologist Carleton Gajdusek in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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