Lucas

American

[loo-kuhs] / ˈlu kəs /

noun

George, born 1944, U.S. film director.
a male given name, form of Luke.

Lucas British

/ ˈluːkəs /

noun

George. born 1944, US film director, producer, and writer of screenplays. Films include American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977) and its prequels The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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He is allergic to the presumption that anyone, including the Fed, can fine-tune the economy, and invoked the Lucas critique at one of his first news conferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

That came under attack by the University of Chicago’s Robert Lucas, who argued that as public expectations adapted, past relationships between unemployment and inflation would break down, which they did in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The other two members are the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Andrea Lucas, and acting director of the Office of Government Ethics, Keith Sonderling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Lucas Lu walked by the protest, guiding two black-and-white humanoid robots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

And the wagon driven by Charlie Lucas, parked in front of William Rollins’s house, caught their attention.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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