Dwight
Americannoun
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Timothy, 1826–1916, U.S. ecclesiastic: president of Yale University 1886–98.
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a male given name: from an Anglo-French surname meaning “of the Isle of Wight.”
Example Sentences
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In the meantime, there’s a lot of unwieldy comic commotion involving a missing corpse, a tweaking, naked Dwight and enough insipid TV sibling bickering to clog the airwaves for a decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
In the middle, it can be hard to shake the Dwight Schrute-esque caricature of a manager who was shunted into some do-nothing role where he can’t cause too much damage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Stagg played a crucial advisory role when US General Dwight D Eisenhower invaded Normandy, laying the foundations for the Allied victory in World War Two.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was deployed for nine months to July 2024, while USS Theodore Roosevelt was at sea also for nine months to October 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
President Dwight D. Eisenhower had pushed hard for such a bill; during World War II, he’d been enormously impressed by Adolf Hitler’s Reichsautobahn, the world’s first superhighway system.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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