Robertson
Americannoun
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Oscar Palmer The Big O, born 1938, U.S. basketball player: Basketball Hall of Fame 1980, 2010.
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Pat Marion Gordon Robertson, 1930–2023, U.S. evangelist and media mogul noted for his influential political conservatism.
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William, 1721–93, Scottish historian, academic, and minister in the Church of Scotland.
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Sir William Robert, 1860–1933, British field marshal, noted for his unprecedented rise from enlisted man to highest ranking British army officer.
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Ms. Parish gives a memorable performance, as does Mitchell Robertson as Eddie, her new partner and investigative genius—a traitor to his sex, since he goes out on night patrols.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
“The Boys” co-creator Darick Robertson illustrated the grinning gargoyle on its label.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
In the halcyon days of the televangelists, when Jim Bakker stood shoulder to shoulder with fire and brimstone preachers such as Jerry Farwell, Pat Robertson and Jimmy Swaggart, the collection plate always seemed bottomless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Robertson said his team was out-fought, which was a telling comment.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Pat Robertson, the former television evangelist and presidential candidate, maintained recently that he couldn’t prove that there weren’t Soviet missile sites in Cuba and therefore there might be.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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