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McKay

American  
[muh-key] / məˈkeɪ /

noun

  1. Claude, 1890–1948, U.S. author, born in Jamaica: leader in the Harlem Renaissance.


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Looking out longer than three years is hard for McKay.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

“It was like, ‘Ha ha, you’re not going to be the one who gets in trouble with this because you’re McKay Coppins,’ ” Ostacher told me.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

Trump himself told the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, “I think she’d be very, very hard to beat.”

From Salon • May 3, 2026

Exactly how much output will suffer will be a mystery until engineers try to restart production, said Fraser McKay, head of upstream analysis at Wood Mackenzie.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

A mile below town he stopped at a one-car block manned by the two Chamisaville state personnel, Loren McKay and Buddy Namath, who added nothing to the plethora of noninformation he already had.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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