Barnum
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It was Barnum who said not only that a sucker was born every minute, but that you should “never give a sucker an even break.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Target-date funds really come down to simplicity versus optimization,” Michael Bogardus, a financial planner at Barnum Financial Group, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
As Barnum once said: “No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
By the time he was 15, he had joined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as “the world’s youngest puppeteer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Did Phineas Gage, The Man with a Hole in His Head, fit in with the other human oddities and strange wonders that Barnum promoted here with hype and hoopla?
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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