Eaton
Americannoun
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Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
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a male given name.
Example Sentences
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First, it was the Eaton fire that upended their lives in January of 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Los Angeles County communities devastated by the Eaton and Palisades fires early last year are still in recovery mode.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Joy Chen, an Altadena resident who leads a group for survivors of the 2025 Eaton Fire, said a mid-August briefing by one of Newsom’s advisers on the proposal left her “absolutely stunned.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
They’ve delayed and denied thousands of Eaton and Palisades fire claims while overloading the airwaves with warm and fuzzy ads about how much they care about customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Instead, everyone had trooped to the courthouse to demonstrate—inside, a fellow activist named Bob Eaton was being sentenced to prison for resisting the draft.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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