Eric
noun
Eric
1 American
[er-ik]
/ ˈɛr ɪk /
ERIC
2
American
[er-ik]
/ ˈɛr ɪk /
abbreviation
eric
British
/ ˈɛrɪk /
noun
Etymology
Origin of eric
C16: from Irish eiric
Example Sentences
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Enterprise revenue rose 7.8% to $787.5 million, marking its strong growth rate in three years, Chief Executive Eric Yuan said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Let’s all join in a big pep squad cheer — gimme an E! — for Eric Sondheimer’s 50th anniversary covering high school sports in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
“I don’t think we’ll be in a position by this time next year to deploy 5,000 vehicles,” Eric Earley, chief engineer of Tesla’s Cybercab vehicle, told the NTA on Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
"What's very different now compared to a decade ago is the level of interest rates," says Eric Swanson, professor of economics at University of California and former senior economist at the Federal Reserve.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Eric shines a light in my eyes then peeks at the lump on my head.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
Officials with the Texas Secretary of State’s office last year said that instead of ERIC, they would try to obtain the data directly from state and federal agencies, and from other states.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
Member states of the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, partnership share voter registration and identification data to avoid having people registered to vote in multiple states.
From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023
Virginia Elections Commissioner Susan Beals, in a letter sent Thursday to ERIC, listed several reasons for the decision to end the state’s membership.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
The database, known as ERIC, was long considered an important security tool and enjoyed widespread bipartisan support.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
Enter, by the hall door, HUGO, ERIC, and THORA.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
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From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2013
Taran, the netherlands, via text 0455: "Nigel in brent knoll will be sorry when murray wins in 4 sets." eric in colchester...
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2010
The irony is that although Wilson ends by calling for full-scale books on both Fuller and Fred eric the reader of this essay may not feel in need of another word on either subject.
From Time Magazine Archive
Luga imposed an extraordinary eric fine on the sons of Turenn, part of which was "the cooking-spit of the women of Fincara."
From The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales by Corinne Turner
But the two chiefs, unmoved by what they had heard from Oisin, said that they would rather perish in seeking out the eric than return to their mother's country.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
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