Lippmann
Americannoun
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Gabriel 1845–1921, French physicist: Nobel Prize 1908.
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Walter, 1889–1974, U.S. journalist.
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Example Sentences
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It’s correct if he means a product that ends up lacking what the great Walter Lippmann once called “a sense of evidence.”
The ghost of Walter Lippmann leaning into the wireless to hear FDR . . . stole into me.
Greg Lippmann wrote back hastily and ungrammatically, “Would you like to give us some other bonds that we can tell you what we will pay you.”
From Literature
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Mr. Steel began working on his biography of Mr. Lippmann in the early 1970s.
From New York Times
“Instead of hanging human dignity on the one assumption about self-government,” Lippmann wrote, “you insist that man’s dignity requires a standard of living.”
From Seattle Times
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