Powell

American  

[pau-uhl, poh-uhl] / ˈpaʊ əl, ˈpoʊ əl /

noun

1. Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.

2. Anthony, 1905–2000, English author.

3. Cecil Frank, 1903–69, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1950.

4. Colin 1937–2021, U.S. general: chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1989–96; secretary of state 2001–05.

5. Earl Bud, 1924–66, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.

6. John Wesley, 1834–1902, U.S. geologist and ethnologist.

7. Lewis Franklin, Jr., 1907–1998, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–87.

8. Lake Powell, an artificial reservoir on the border of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona, on the Colorado River, formed by the construction of a dam Glen Canyon Dam (completed 1964). 186 miles (300 km) long.

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Powell British  

/ ˈpaʊəl /

noun

1. Anthony ( Dymoke ˈdɪmək). 1905–2000, British novelist, best known for his sequence of novels under the general title A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–75)

2. Cecil Frank. 1903–69, British physicist, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1950 for his discovery of the pi-meson

3. Colin ( Luther ) (ˈcəʊlɪn). born 1937, US politician and general; Republican secretary of state (2001–05)

4. Earl, known as Bud Powell. 1924–1966, US modern-jazz pianist

5. ( John ) Enoch. 1912–98, British politician. An outspoken opponent of Commonwealth immigration into Britain and of British membership of the Common Market (now the European Union), in 1974 he resigned from the Conservative Party, returning to Parliament as a United Ulster Unionist Council member (1974–87)

6. Michael. 1905–90, British film writer, producer, and director, best known for his collaboration (1942–57) with Emeric Pressburger. Films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), and Peeping Tom (1960)

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Powell

Education Secretary Lucy Powell said she was "backing" the inquiry to "get to the heart of the barriers holding children back".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

But on the whole, Powell McCormick said, Meta assumes that building data centers in the U.S. is “going to be harder” and getting new ones done from scratch will be “very challenging.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Getting data centers built is “going to be harder” after the midterm elections, said Meta Platforms President Dina Powell McCormick at the WSJ Tech conference on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Meta's president Dina Powell McCormick agreed that the industry needed to improve their communication about the benefits of AI.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Incredibly, Powell, thanks to the little package he showed as a prop, had still not created suspicion about his true intentions.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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