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Rudy

American  
[roo-dee] / ˈru di /

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Rudolf.


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“We lost our shirts off it in ’23, ’24 and ’25,” said Rudy Diaz, CEO of Long Beach, Calif.-based Hight Logistics, who started running zero-emission trucks at the end of 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

That’s how much of my time it was taking before,” said David Rudy, talent manager, producer and father of 6-month-old identical twin boys who employs a house manager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mastro’s roots in New York City politics date to the 1980s, when he worked as a federal prosecutor under Rudy Giuliani, who was then the Manhattan U.S. attorney.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"We're running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers," Greenpeace political campaigner Rudy Schulkind said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Rudy Noyes, who was still young at thirty-six, had been with the office, had, in fact, been Bookman’s personal sidekick, apprentice, and mouthpiece for eleven of those seventeen years.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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