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Donald

American  
[don-ld] / ˈdɒn ld /

noun

  1. a male given name: from Celtic words meaning “world” and “power.”


Donald British  
/ ˈdɒnəld /

noun

  1. ?1031–1100, king of Scotland (1093–94; 1094–97)

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he took part in a remembrance ceremony of fallen Polish soldiers in Afghanistan back in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal

"If we are to understand our own evolutionary trajectory as a genus and species, we need to understand the environmental, ecological, and competitive factors that shaped our evolution," said Alemseged, the Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at UChicago.

From Science Daily

"We will not let anyone play us," Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned tersely on social media.

From BBC

His law-school roommate and friend, Donald Dell, proposed an alternative: representing pro athletes in negotiations for endorsement deals, then an emerging business whose best-known player was Mark H. McCormack, the founder of International Management Group, or IMG.

From The Wall Street Journal

Blau, who leads the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and holds the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professorship, and Nidhi Bhutani, PhD, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, are the study's senior authors.

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