Jordan, Michael

Cultural  

1. A basketball player, first as a guard at the University of North Carolina and then in the National Basketball Association, mainly with the Chicago Bulls. An extraordinarily skillful and graceful shooter, Jordan is regarded as the best basketball player ever.

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Example Sentences

"His tender heart lives on in someone else because of his never-ending desire to help others," the mother of Jordan Michael Cummins, who died in 2022, wrote for the United Network for Organ Sharing.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2023

I reminded him that a couple of weeks earlier, he'd been golfing with and hanging out with Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, Russell Wilson, a couple other guys.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 3, 2018

When the Tragically Hip announced May 24 that their lead singer Gord Downie was suffering from terminal brain cancer, Canadians expressed an unusual amount of grief, says Jordan Michael Smith.

From BBC • May 27, 2016

Canadian journalist Jordan Michael Smith reflects on the outrageous life of Rob Ford, the former mayor of Toronto.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2016

Jordan Michael Smith is a writer in Washington, D.C., who has written for the Boston Globe, the New Republic, and Foreign Policy.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2010