Sumner
Americannoun
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Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
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James Batcheller 1887–1955, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1946.
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William Graham, 1840–1910, U.S. sociologist and economist.
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a male given name.
Example Sentences
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The Chief Executive of UHLG, James Sumner, said the trust was "sincerely sorry for any distress that may have been caused to the patients".
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Forty-five years old, tall and strikingly handsome, Sumner was the consummate New England intellectual: widely traveled, deeply versed in classics and the law, and staunchly committed to the cause of African-Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
He was also found to have breached the code by advising Sumner on how to approach Lord Deighton.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
In this academic setting a consensus emerged, as the legal scholar Henry Sumner Maine argued, that sacrifice had been the basis for social order and political association.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
Mr. Lincoln was not a faraway man like General McClellan or Senator Sumner or Secretary of State Seward.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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