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Gates

American  
[geyts] / geɪts /

noun

  1. Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.

  2. William Bill, born 1956, U.S. entrepreneur.


Gates British  
/ ɡeɪts /

noun

  1. Bill, full name William Henry Gates. born 1955, US computer-software executive and philanthropist; founder (1976) of Microsoft Corporation

  2. Henry Louis. born 1950, US scholar and critic, who pioneered African-American studies in such works as Figures in Black (1987)

  3. Horatio. ?1728–1806, American Revolutionary general: defeated the British at Saratoga (1777)

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Yoo said at a debate earlier this year that she supports “equal access” to Country Club Park’s sidewalks and that the gates’ pedestrian doors should be opened.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

In that case, they should decide the gates’ use, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

One District 10 candidate, Eddie Anderson, a pastor and community organizer, floated the possibility of opening the gates’ pedestrian doors from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Her works 'praise her in the gates'; but it is her husband, and not she, that 'sits' there among the elders.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

So the curious prevision of the future which had come over them all at 'Uncle Marmy's gates' was actually fulfilled.

From Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls by Barnes, Robert

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