Gerald

[jer-uhld]

noun

1. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “rule.”

Example Sentences

Additionally, credit funds are more likely to have fund-level leverage than their private-equity peers, putting more pressure on net internal rates of return over time, said Gerald Cooper, global co-head of the secondary advisory practice at Campbell Lutyens.

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“There’s never been a harder time to be prime minister of Canada,” said Gerald Butts, vice chairman of the Eurasia Group consulting firm, who acted as a strategic adviser to Carney during this year’s general election.

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Typically, the book would be written first, and the screenplay would follow, though, for “Message in a Bottle,” Sparks finished the novel after Gerald Di Pego had completed the script, with Kevin Costner attached.

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Sara Jane Moore, who fired a handgun at US President Gerald Ford in an attempted assassination outside a San Francisco hotel in 1975, has died, according to US media.

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Sara Jane Moore, the woman serving a life sentence for trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, sued the warden of her federal prison Tuesday to prevent him from taking keys to cells away from the inmates.

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