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Harold

American  
[har-uhld] / ˈhær əld /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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“His performance is the first I have seen to realize completely what the scholar Harold Bloom means when he calls this play ‘a tragedy of the imagination.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Interior Secretary Harold Ickes ended the skirmish by imposing a truce and persuading Congress to designate the dam as a federal project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Rolander is a research engineer in the Fabrication Lab at the Harold A. Miller Library at Hopkins Marine Station, which belongs to the Doerr School of Sustainability.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

The post of Welsh secretary, or secretary of state for Wales, was created by Harold Wilson's Labour government in October 1964, with the Welsh Office opening the following April.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Harold embraced Gerry, making her face upstage, and the curtain came down.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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