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Sims

American  
[simz] / sɪmz /

noun

  1. William Sowden 1858–1936, U.S. admiral, born in Canada.


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At Minnesota, Sims was also the doctoral adviser for Lars Peter Hansen, who won the Nobel in 2013.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

William Sims wrote in 1920’s “The Victory at Sea” that the point of escorting Allied shipping in World War I wasn’t to protect the ships.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Sims and Sargent, in a 1977 paper, said they suspected that contemporary economic models weren’t grounded in any real explanation for why the economy works the way it does.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

One of Sargent’s last conversations with Sims was at a conference held in Sims’s honor in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Not just the ones I make up or the ones I play with on Sims.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera