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Carnegie

American  
[kahr-ni-gee, kahr-ney-gee, -neg-ee] / ˈkɑr nɪ gi, kɑrˈneɪ gi, -ˈnɛg i /

noun

  1. Andrew, 1835–1919, U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland.

  2. Dale, 1888–1955, U.S. author and teacher of self-improvement techniques.

  3. a city in SW Pennsylvania.


Carnegie British  
/ ˈkɑːnəɡɪ, kɑːˈneɪ- /

noun

  1. Andrew. 1835–1919, US steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland: endowed public libraries, education, and research trusts

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Alexander Gabuev, the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin who played Putin in the exercise, pointed out that the smokescreen of “humanitarian” intervention was crucial to enable Russian conquest.

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“Both sides still have resources—manpower, weapons, money—to continue to fight,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, a think tank in Berlin.

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On Jan. 6, a federal district court in Pennsylvania unsealed a court order in Yael Canaan’s suit against Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University.

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Traditional benchmarking systems typically involve asking a model individual questions and evaluating its individual answers, said Graham Neubig, associate professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technology Institute.

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Alongside his Carnegie Hall concerts, which began in 1943, this LP helped elevate Ellington as a serious composer working at a grand scale.

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