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Neil

American  
[neel] / nil /

noun

  1. a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”


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It was of course the voice of Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the Moon, with the Apollo 11 mission.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Richard Sutherland has been in Tasmania for months, his brother and neighbour Neil Sutherland has said, and he certainly did not know Freeman or sympathise with his beliefs.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

“There’s a lot more that’s going to come,” says Neil Green, chief digital officer of Otis Worldwide, the Connecticut-based company founded by Elisha Otis and now one of the largest elevator manufacturers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

An audibly hostile Justice Neil Gorsuch was no less impressed.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

And after he’d told me about Neil and their sibling rivalry?

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon