Stanford

[stan-ferd]

noun

1. (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.

2. a male given name.

Stanford

/ ˈstænfəd /

noun

1. Sir Charles ( Villiers ). 1852–1924, Anglo-Irish composer and conductor, who as a teacher at the Royal College of Music had much influence on the succeeding generation of composers: noted esp for his church music, oratorios, and cantatas

Example Sentences

Check in closer to the date of the party, says Matt Abrahams, a communication consultant and lecturer in organizational behavior at Stanford University.

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Mr. Rauh is the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in economics at the Hoover Institution and a finance professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Kim, who directs the Stanford Diabetes Research Center and the Northern California Breakthrough T1D Center of Excellence, is the senior author of the study, which published online Nov. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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Last year, private investment in AI totaled about $109 billion in the U.S., with China and the U.K. under $10 billion, according to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

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The nation is watching how California manages the slow decline of its gasoline refinery industry, said Cummings, of Stanford.

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