Pinchot
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Gifford Pinchot, Roosevelt’s close friend and a Tennis Cabinet member, wanted the president to bring a rough-edged man named George Washington Woodruff into the club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
“Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the Forest Service, once described conservation as ‘the application of common sense to common problems for the common good,’” Wood said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
Who doesn’t love seeing Ken Marino be a jerk, Jason Lee portray another loser or Bronson Pinchot do his "loopy foreigner" act again, only this time as a chef from a real country?
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025
Open fires are prohibited across the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
“You will have heard of our great calamity,” Olmsted wrote to his friend Gifford Pinchot.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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