Peirce
Americannoun
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Benjamin, 1809–80, U.S. mathematician.
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Charles Sanders 1839–1914, U.S. philosopher, mathematician, and physicist.
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a male given name.
noun
Example Sentences
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Early last year, Selig was recruited by officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission including Hester Peirce, a Republican commissioner dubbed “Crypto Mom,” to serve as counsel for the agency’s new crypto task force.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
Candidates under consideration to lead the SEC include Daniel Gallagher, a former SEC official now at Robinhood, and current Republican SEC commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda, according to the Washington Post.
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2024
SEC commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda partially dissented from Monday's settlement, saying the regulator owed investors better guidance on NFTs.
From Reuters • Aug. 28, 2023
A temporary evacuation center has been set up at Olive Peirce Middle School, at 1521 Hanson Lane in Ramona, which lies in an area that falls under the evacuation warning.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023
The process is this: Peirce, as we will remember, begins his discussion of the real by defining it as “that whose characters are independent of what anybody may think them to be.”
From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Geyer, Delton Loring
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