Otis
Americannoun
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Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
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Harrison Gray, 1837–1917, U.S. army officer and newspaper publisher.
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James, 1725–83, American lawyer and public official who is supposed to have first used the phrase “Taxation without representation” (brother of Mercy Otis Warren).
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a male given name.
Example Sentences
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The lead lawyer for Trump’s petitions to the Supreme Court in the Carroll cases had been Justin Smith, until recently an attorney at the St. Louis, Mo.-based boutique James Otis Law Group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel and his wife, Miranda Kerr, are paying off the college debt of 285 graduates at Otis College, the oldest art and design school in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
James Otis, a prominent Patriot from Massachusetts, asserted in 1764 that the “colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white or black.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The Buy-rating ratios for Otis, Trane, and Johnson Controls are also around 50%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Diamond Joe and Otis trudge up to the elephant car, slowly, matter-of-factly, and set about shutting it.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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