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Lamont

American  
[luh-mont] / ləˈmɒnt /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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Before Marc Lamont Hill was helping elevate the conversation on one of the country’s biggest podcasts, I watched him school Bill O’Reilly as a Fox contributor and Temple University professor.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

After an Anthropic employee put the chances of AI doing that at more than 10%, economist Owen Lamont quipped that it was “like Robert Oppenheimer doing an IPO for the Manhattan Project in 1945.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Lamont was the U.K. chancellor who tried — unsuccessfully — to keep the U.K. in the European exchange rate mechanism.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

German Owen Ansah completed the podium after Italy's two-time defending champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs pulled up with an injury at halfway.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

We were in a tizzy then until Lamont escaped out into his free afternoon.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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