Sachs

American  

[zahks] / zɑks /

noun

1. Hans 1494–1576, German Meistersinger: author of stories, songs, poems and dramatic works.

2. Nelly (Leonie), 1891–1970, German poet and playwright, in Sweden after 1940: Nobel Prize 1966.

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Sachs British  

/ zaks /

noun

1. Hans (hans). 1494–1576, German master shoemaker and Meistersinger, portrayed by Wagner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

2. Nelly ( Leonie ). 1891–1970, German Jewish poet and dramatist, who escaped from Nazi Germany and settled in Sweden. Her works include Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel (1951) and `O the Chimneys', a poem about the Nazi extermination camps. Nobel prize for literature 1966 jointly with Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Example Sentences

“I have these stories from being in the locker room. I hope that, as a player, my story resonates more than a guy from Goldman Sachs saying, ‘Yeah, we’ve got a couple good ETFs.’”

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Jeff Currie, economist and senior advisor at Carlyle Group, has a distinguished CV as former chief commodities strategist at Goldman Sachs.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

Goldman Sachs estimated this week that retail trading volumes were up by 28% since mid-April and that a basket of retail favorite stocks had risen by 29% over that stretch.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Among the largest banks, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley stocks have each gained about 6% this year, while JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are down around 8% each.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

On June 20, Grinstein finally returned to tell him that Goldman Sachs had experienced “systems failure.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis