Burckhardt
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
An avid social dancer, Katz invited Burckhardt to the Palladium Ballroom in New York, home of the mambo, and Burckhardt brought Denby, who didn’t dance but asked Katz questions about the dancing.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022
As the historian Jacob Burckhardt would write, “Italy began to swarm with individuality; the ban laid upon human personality was dissolved.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2021
Mr. Adler just handed over the records and digitized files to his audio engineer, Jacob Burckhardt, who edits some tracks, improves their sound quality and sequences them in seamless fashion.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2016
From its back a group of Turkish soldiers lifted the light shelter tents intended for their colonel and Major Burckhardt, and proceeded to pitch them.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert
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