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
The latest donation takes the total funding from the Denise Coates Foundation to £29m to UHNM's charitable arm since 2014.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
The first of the Coates shows was televised locally after it had been given heavy publicity over the weekend by the newspapers.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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