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Steele

American  
[steel] / stil /

noun

  1. Sir Richard, 1672–1729, English essayist, journalist, dramatist, and political leader; born in Ireland.

  2. Mount, a mountain in SW Yukon Territory, Canada, on the Alaska border in the St. Elias Range. 16,644 feet (5,074 meters).


Steele British  
/ stiːl /

noun

  1. Sir Richard. 1672–1729, British essayist and dramatist, born in Ireland; with Joseph Addison he was the chief contributor to the periodicals The Tatler (1709–11) and The Spectator (1711–12)

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But the fourth a soul match with Alfred Steele, the president of Pepsi-Cola, which was cut cruelly short after four years by his death in 1959 from a heart attack.

From The Wall Street Journal

It has been almost 20 years since Shelby Steele published the best-known of his five books on race, “White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.”

From The Wall Street Journal

This is representative of a press that never asks Adam Schiff about his championing of the false Steele dossier.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Rather than ion implantation, molecular beam epitaxy was used to precisely incorporate gallium atoms into the germanium's crystal lattice," says Julian Steele, a physicist at the University of Queensland and a co-author of the study.

From Science Daily

That’s because mortgage officers typically explain to homeowners how tax payments change over time based on the property’s fully assessed value, said Mike Steele, a mortgage-loan officer in southwest Florida.

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