Sholes
Americannoun
noun
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“Markets ‘moved on’ from the war and oil prices when gas prices stopped going up,” Esther Sholes, senior macro analyst at Take Profit Trader, and former portfolio manager at Millennium Investment Management, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
It wasn’t until the 1860s that a trio of U.S. inventors led by Christopher Sholes found the winning approach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025
Then, about four years ago, said Aaron Sholes, operations manager for Washelli, he made a discovery while cleaning the cemetery’s operations base.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022
While continuing to play music at night, she worked as a secretary to producers Steve Sholes and Herman Diaz Jr. in the A&R department.
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2021
Still, it embodied the essential principles of the typewriter as it is made to-day, and after spending five years in perfecting it, Sholes made a contract with E. Remington & Son topage 354 manufacture it.
From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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