Walter
Americannoun
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Bruno Bruno Schlesinger, 1876–1962, German opera and symphony conductor, in U.S. after 1939.
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Thomas Ustick 1804–87, U.S. architect.
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a male given name.
noun
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Bruno (ˈbruːno), real name Bruno Walter Schlesinger. 1876–1962, US conductor, born in Germany: famous for his performances of Haydn, Mozart, and Mahler
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John . 1739–1812, English publisher; founded The Daily Universal Register (1785), which in 1788 became The Times
Example Sentences
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The second-largest investment is in a debt deal with Clarus Capital, an equipment finance company that is not a Walter affiliate but has longstanding business ties to Guggenheim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Walter financial network found an additional way to get money out of its insurance companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Walter Scheirer, another expert at the University of Notre Dame, agreed AI was likely involved.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Its centerpiece was an eight-foot-tall stone lantern given to then-Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley by Japanese sports columnist Sotaro Suzuki and his wife, Toku, who had attended the stadium’s grand opening in 1962.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Then Walter Fried, the president of the American Chess Foundation, who’d just burst into the room, noticed that Fischer was in absentia and declared Reshevsky the winner of the series.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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