Lippmann
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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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The ghost of Walter Lippmann leaning into the wireless to hear FDR . . . stole into me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Anthony Lewis, in The Times, called the Lippmann book “candid and balanced,” adding, “Steel does not flinch from unpleasant facts or critical judgments.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
“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 ● Jan. 10, 2023
Reporter and commentator Walter Lippmann noted that citizens have limited personal experience with government and the world and posited that the media, through their stories, place ideas in citizens’ minds.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Even that, Lippmann thought, might cause the market to crash.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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