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De Witt

[duh wit]

noun

  1. Jan 1625–72, Dutch statesman.

  2. a male given name: from the Flemish family name meaning “white.”



de Witt

/ də ˈwɪt /

noun

  1. Johan. 1625–72, Dutch statesman; chief minister of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1653–72)

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How did it feel to win the election after just a few months of campaigning, following the death of state Sen. Rocky De Witt, especially being in a deeply Republican district?

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Iowa state Sen.-elect Catelin Drey took the political world by storm after she won a victory in Iowa’s special election to fill the Sioux City-area seat of Republican state Sen. Rocky De Witt, who died in June from pancreatic cancer.

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County Superior Court Judge Susan J. De Witt declined to release Matarico, who remains jailed in lieu of $590,000.

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De Witt also granted a request for a protective order barring Matarico from speaking to the teen or going near his home or school.

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University of Oxford researcher Christian Schroeder de Witt, Carnegie Mellon University researcher Samuel Sokota and their colleagues used an AI program to create innocent-looking chat messages with secret content.

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