Gresham
Americannoun
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Sir Thomas, 1519?–79, English merchant and financier.
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a town in NW Oregon.
noun
Example Sentences
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“I’m not surprised by this kind of mess,” says Kim Kamin, chief wealth strategist at Gresham Partners, an investment-advisory firm in Chicago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Sam Gresham had a three-run home run for Canyon.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
"It's not a threshold beyond which climate change will spin out of control," says Prof Myles Allen of the University of Oxford and Gresham College, and a lead author of the UN's landmark 2018 report.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024
Lyle lived for most of his life in Gresham, a suburb outside Portland, spending his time hiking through the mountains and rivers of Oregon and caring for his mother before her death.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2023
The college had been founded in 1596 by Sir Thomas Gresham, a financial adviser to Queen Elizabeth, as the first seat of advanced learning in England outside Oxford and Cambridge.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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