Patterson

American  

[pat-er-suhn] / ˈpæt ər sən /

noun

1. Eleanor Medill Cissy, 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.

2. Floyd, 1935–2006, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1956–59, 1960–62.

3. Frederick Douglass, 1901–1988, U.S. educator; founder of United Negro College Fund.

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Example Sentences

Warren Patterson, head of commodities strategy at Dutch bank ING, agreed, suggesting the US move would "only scratch the surface" of the supply disruption in the Persian Gulf.

From BBC

Patterson said the countries most likely to buy up the newly-available Russian oil would be India and other Asian countries who have been most affected by the closure of the strait.

From BBC

In the ensuing decades, this Bigfoot film shot in 1967 by Roger Patterson became a piece of Americana shared by skeptics and believers alike.

From The Wall Street Journal

The trail of damage from Patterson’s pet project includes money fights, family estrangement and bitter fallouts as friends turned on each other amid efforts to debunk or defend the footage over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the new footage—from a Kodak reel dating to 1966—Patterson’s camera tracks a man in costume, his brother-in-law, moving in a similar fashion to the figure in the 1967 shoot, which featured a different location and a bigger man with a more distinctive stride, according to the documentary.

From The Wall Street Journal