Claude

American

[klawd, klohd] / klɔd, kloʊd /

noun

Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.
Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

Claude British

/ klɔːd, klod /

noun

Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

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Example Sentences

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I let Claude and Perplexity access my health data to search for hidden patterns in my personal metrics, and better understand what the risks are.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Perplexity and Claude did point out that my iron levels haven’t been tested, and if they’re low, a supplement could increase energy levels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

What’s more, SpaceX threatens to overshadow just about any other company that might look to IPO later this year, except maybe for ChatGPT owner OpenAI and Claude developer Anthropic.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

And another comment stated that the impact wasn't just on Claude Code, saying "A simple one sentence reply to a conversation just took me from 59% usage to 100%. How??"

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

He is paying farmers near Cancale to butcher lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into his wife’s matching vinyl suitcases and carries them himself by train to Paris.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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