Gates
Americannoun
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Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
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William Bill, born 1956, U.S. entrepreneur.
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Bill, full name William Henry Gates. born 1955, US computer-software executive and philanthropist; founder (1976) of Microsoft Corporation
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Henry Louis. born 1950, US scholar and critic, who pioneered African-American studies in such works as Figures in Black (1987)
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Horatio. ?1728–1806, American Revolutionary general: defeated the British at Saratoga (1777)
Example Sentences
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In that case, they should decide the gates’ use, she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
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
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
They only 'opened the gates' and lo! there came in the builders of a new and mighty nation.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
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
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