Coates
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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
Kyla Coates, a senior deputy director with the county’s Department of Mental Health, said today people have far more opportunity to challenge their commitment.
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
Harrison's mother Jane Coates said her daughter, who worked as a buyer for fashion brand Boohoo, was a "real force of life".
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
When the program was finished, and we heard Paul Coates announce we would return “tomorrow” to continue the interview, our attention switched to the telephone.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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