Forster

American

[fawr-ster] / ˈfɔr stər /

noun

E(dward) M(organ), 1879–1970, English novelist.

Forster British

/ ˈfɔːstə /

noun

E ( dward ) M ( organ ). 1879–1970, English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His best-known novels are A Room with a View (1908), Howard's End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), in all of which he stresses the need for sincerity and sensitivity in human relationships and criticizes English middle-class values

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“I don’t believe the bottom is in…the market expects outsized swings as we head into the new year,” Nick Forster, founder at crypto options platform Derive.xyz, wrote in a Tuesday note.

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

Forster and the computer scientist Alan Turing — all three being, like their creator, King’s College alumni.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

“Liquidity evaporated across crypto futures as market makers pulled quotes to avoid breaching risk limits,” Nick Forster, founder of crypto-options platform Derive.xyz, wrote in a Monday note.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 13, 2025

"Things are all moving in the wrong direction," said lead author Prof Piers Forster, director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2025

The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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