Crusoe
Americannoun
noun
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When the seasoned diplomat found himself in the midst of a hazardous voyage in 1784, he might well have compared himself to the marooned Robinson Crusoe.
“Robinson Crusoe” concerned a longer ordeal: Defoe had drawn on the true account of a Scottish sailor who was marooned on an island near Chile, borrowing themes from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”
Instead, it will repurpose some of them to help power microgrids for customers like AI-infrastructure firm Crusoe.
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On the way to Othello they could hop on poor Robinson Crusoe for not saying ‘Mr. Friday’ on the island.”
“Would you care to check out a book before you go? Robinson Crusoe, perhaps?” the librarian called after her.
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