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  • crandall
    crandall
    noun
    a tool for dressing stone, having adjustable, pointed, steel rods held in a slot at the end of the handle.
  • Crandall
    Crandall
    noun
    Prudence, 1803–90, U.S. educator and civil rights activist.

crandall

1 American  
[kran-dl] / ˈkræn dl /

noun

  1. a tool for dressing stone, having adjustable, pointed, steel rods held in a slot at the end of the handle.


Crandall 2 American  
[kran-dl] / ˈkræn dl /

noun

  1. Prudence, 1803–90, U.S. educator and civil rights activist.


Etymology

Origin of crandall

Probably after the proper name


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“Suddenly nobody knows what the real message is,” Crandall told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

“The Treasury has invested decades that it would not behave opportunistically like this,” Crandall said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Lou Crandall, chief economist at research firm Wrightson ICAP, said the Fed’s current framework was designed to spot the recent market signals that suggest they are approaching their likely destination of less ample reserve levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

The breakthrough came during a routine meeting between Gehman and two collaborators, Grace Crandall and Melanie Prentice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

This was especially directed against the famous Prudence Crandall school, and was repeated in 1838.

From The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development by W. E. Burghardt DuBois

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