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Hays

American  
[heyz] / heɪz /

noun

  1. Will (Harrison), 1879–1954, U.S. lawyer, politician, and official of the motion-picture industry.

  2. a city in central Kansas.


Example Sentences

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Its oil income has actually increased during the war as higher prices offset lower volumes, Hays says.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

Emerging market bond resilience reflects “a misunderstanding of the asset class,” says Chris Hays, a portfolio manager at fixed-income specialist TCW.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

Last week, the two guys who host it, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, sold it to OpenAI for a sum that the Financial Times reported was in the “low hundreds of millions.”

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026

Chaparro said that Coogan and Hays established a tone that “aligned” with the tech industry, as opposed to being “adversarial.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

The owner of the house in Mooers Forks where he boarded, D. S. Hays, noticed Mudgett often displayed large sums of cash.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson