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)
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Sitting in the front row was his girlfriend Paula Hurd, one of his sisters and Larry Cohen, the longtime CEO of Gates Ventures and his right-hand man.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Employees around Gates have spent years carefully cultivating his portrayal to set him apart from his combative years fighting antitrust charges while leading Microsoft, according to internal documents and Gates employees.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
He acknowledged the two affairs with Russian women and photographs that showed him with redacted faces of women whom Gates described as Epstein’s assistants.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
One highlight years ago was a viral YouTube clip of Gates and his billionaire pal Warren Buffett picking up a shift at Dairy Queen.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Over and over again, Gates was bombarded by reporters with versions of the question, “Mr. Gates, these Internet stocks, they’re a bubble, right? Surely they’re a bubble. They must be a bubble?”
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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