Lamar
Americannoun
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Joseph R., 1857–1916, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1911–16.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus 1825–93, U.S. politician and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1888–93.
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a male given name.
Example Sentences
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Talbott, meanwhile, completed his own Live Nation internship before getting the opportunity to work as a back-of-house assistant on Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 2025 Grand National Tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
It bothered Lacy, a serious artist who wrote with Kendrick Lamar and earned a Grammy nomination as a teenager in the R&B collective The Internet, suddenly thrust into living meme territory with “Bad Habit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Lamar Alexander has little patience for the framing of moderates versus conservatives in GOP politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Lamar Alexander of Tennessee is one of those career politicians, generally respected across party lines, whose admirers think of him as that rare public servant the republic deserves as president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
I didn’t see it, but Lamar reported that Travis burst into tears when he saw the bird and tried to shoo him into the brush, but Reggie was determined to return to the soft life.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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