Barnum
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It was Barnum who said not only that a sucker was born every minute, but that you should “never give a sucker an even break.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
JPMorgan Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum told analysts that the bank’s markets lending had been “the primary driver of wholesale loan growth recently.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
As Barnum once said: “No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
By the time he was 15, he had joined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as “the world’s youngest puppeteer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
While the Barnum Hotel was teeming with life, I was enjoying it with a particularly noisy quartet of rabble-rousers.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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