Coates
Americannoun
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Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
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Joseph Gordon, 1878–1943, New Zealand statesman: prime minister 1925–28.
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Example Sentences
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“Their relationship is a professional relationship. They don’t do social stuff together,” said Victoria Coates, who was deputy national security adviser for the Middle East and North Africa during Trump’s first term.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
Each housing site will connect to an outside courtyard with a garden and big communal rooms with group activities, Coates said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
A race-relations pessimist who invokes the ideas of other writers of that ilk—Ta-Nehisi Coates, for instance, and Isabel Wilkerson—he detects in America a “fatigue with the pursuit of equality and inclusion.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Former England Under-23s boss Emma Coates, who left to join Bay FC in December, has overseen the development of several young full-backs.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
This was a new version of the Isaac Tupperman story, Isaac of the Bronx, Coates and Morrison, the poems left on Imogen’s bicycle, the possible pregnancy.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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