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Custer

American  
[kuhs-ter] / ˈkʌs tər /

noun

  1. George Armstrong 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.


Custer British  
/ ˈkʌstə /

noun

  1. George Armstrong. 1839–76, US cavalry general: Civil War hero, killed fighting the Sioux Indians at Little Bighorn, Montana

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Annabel Custer, who works in marketing operations at Anthropic, used to manually create event pages for campaigns and handle data imports herself.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

“Orforglipron could provide a convenient alternative for the millions of individuals living with obesity around the globe to continue their long-term health journey,” Kenneth Custer, president of Lilly Cardiometabolic Health, said in a news release.

From MarketWatch Dec. 18, 2025

He struck on an idea to carve representations of the American West into the granite pinnacles of the Central Black Hills: The Lakota leader Red Cloud, Lewis and Clark, George Armstrong Custer.

From Slate Mar. 13, 2025

In high-cost urban areas like New York County or rural regions like Custer County, Idaho, meal costs are far higher than the average.

From Salon Mar. 10, 2025

Custer is the youngest and most aggressive, a blond-haired dynamo—he had roomed with the Confederate Thomas Rosser at West Point.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

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