Moneta
Americannoun
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Ernesto Teodoro 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
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(in Roman religion) an epithet of Juno.
Example Sentences
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He’s also president of Moneta Gardens Improvement, a nonprofit that supports low-income families in Hawthorne, and founded the South Bay Universal Child Development Center preschool, known as the Castle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024
The first iterations of the French press—sans seal—were invented in 1852, but a version similar to the one we use today was patented in the United States in 1929 by Attilio Calimani and Giulio Moneta.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2023
The prize has gone to journalists before: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta of Italy, for example, won in 1907 for promoting pacifism; Carl von Ossietzky of Germany won in 1936 for discovering Nazi rearmament.
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021
Ernesto Moneta, a newspaper editor and leader of the Italian peace movement, won in 1907.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2021
Galiani, 1750, Della Moneta, IV, holds a very happy middle place between the alchymists and the philosophic contemners of gold.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
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