Borden

[bawr-dn]

noun

1. Gail, 1801–74, U.S. inventor: developed technique for condensing milk.

2. Lizzie (Andrew), 1860–1927, defendant in U.S. 1893 trial: acquitted of ax murder of father and stepmother.

3. Sir Robert Laird 1854–1937, Canadian statesman: prime minister 1911–20.

Example Sentences

However, McDonald’s chief financial officer Ian Borden said on the recent earnings call that the company has managed to keep expenses from getting out of control.

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“Defendants are failing to provide constitutionally adequate care for the people in the facility,” Borden said.

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“It is exemplary of the trauma and the heartbreak that people are experiencing inside,” Borden said.

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“Conditions in California City are horrific,” said Tess Borden, a lawyer with the Prison Law Office.

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Jane Borden's "Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America" develops a simple thesis: The English Pilgrims who famously landed at Plymouth Rock were essentially a doomsday cult — even if they lacked a charismatic leader — and together with the Puritans who followed them passed on seven key elements of belief that have shaped America ever since.

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