Debs
noun
Eugene Victor, 1855–1926, U.S. labor leader: Socialist candidate for president 1900–20.
Debs
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He immediately asked for my email address and said he would invite my wife Debs and I to enjoy all the pleasures that city could and would provide.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, began his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
Socialist labor leader Eugene Debs led a national boycott only to have it broken by federal troops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Well, nobody’s laughing now, after the actual mayor-elect began his speech by quoting Eugene V. Debs, the legendary Socialist Party hero who ran for president five times, getting nearly a million votes in 1912.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
To workers, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers came increasingly to seem like saviors, Chicago’s merchant princes like devils.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
They were travelling to debs ball - a dance for teenage school-leavers.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2023
It is understood the young people were on their way to a secondary school debs ball.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023
Also considering the low interest rate of the government bond the country can benefit of a cheatty restructuring of its debs.
From Economist ● Nov. 15, 2012
For a second they stared daggers at each other, like two debs who wore the same Paris original to the cotillion.
From Time ● Jun. 1, 2012
But—but don't the sub debs have any good times over there?
From The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley
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