Harlan

[ hahr-luhn ]

noun

1. John Marshall, 1833–1911, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1877–1911.
2. his grandson John Marshall, 1899–1971, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1955–71.

Example Sentences

The film, about the efforts of a group of workers at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse to unionize their colleagues, fits broadly into a lineage of nonfiction classics that includes Oscar winners “Harlan County USA” and “American Factory.”

From Los Angeles Times

“I think the fiefdom of water supply has to change for everyone to thrive in an era of climate catastrophe,” said Will Harlan, the Southeast director of the Center for Biological Diversity and a resident of Barnardsville, another community not far from Asheville.

From Salon

He goes on the run with his grandfather, Baldwin’s Harlan Rust.

From BBC

"This study adds to the growing evidence of a strong link between sedentary behavior and cardiovascular health," said Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor at Yale School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of JACC.

From Science Daily

I remember when we initially came up with the idea in the writers’ room, how much we were just laughing about the idea of suddenly turning our documentary into a different documentary that was more like “Harlan County, USA.”

From Los Angeles Times