a member of an Indigenous people of central Siberia, living in widely dispersed communities on tributaries of the Yenisei River, between 60° and 67° N latitude.
the Yeniseian language of the Ket, related only to several now extinct languages of the upper Yenisei.
From Russian, from Ket: Ket, “man, human being”
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A 10th suspect was accused of sending them to Preah Ket Mealea Hospital in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, for kidney transplant surgery.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
He held a placard with the slogan "Shal Ket" which means "old man out" - a reference to Nursultan Nazarbayev, 81, Kazakhstan's paramount leader since Soviet times.
From Reuters ● Jan. 6, 2022
Mr. Chalfant had largely stopped photographing trains, and he implored Mr. Ket and his friends to pick up the baton: “He told us it was up to us to document our own movement.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2019
On Dec. 6, the day after Caras said she was fired, she said the company’s human resources representative, Ket Raxajak, called her and asked if she was planning to come to work.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2018
Returning from a foray in Ulster, he was overtaken by Conall at the place called the Ford of Ket, and they fought long and desperately.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
But among the Soyot and Tofalar, near Lake Baikal, only a few dozen remain; and among the Kets in the Yenisei River Basin and the Negidal on the Sea of Okhotsk, almost none at all.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
Careful there…you could very well be what management professor Manfred Kets DeVries calls a “Seductive Operational Bully.”
From Forbes ● Jan. 30, 2015
Kets de Vries claims as many as 3.9% of corporate professionals have what could be described as “psychopathic tendencies.”
From Forbes ● Jan. 30, 2015
“Charisma and narcissism can get confused very easily,” Kets de Vries points out.
From Forbes ● Jan. 30, 2015
Capri–X 2012 In 2010, Peter Van Kets rowed solo across the Atlantic.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2011
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