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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When the Ellison family acquired Paramount from the Sumner Redstone family last year, Ellison shifted operations to L.A., where he and other key executives work on the Melrose Avenue lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
St. Mary’s campus, was built in 1899 by architects Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
A high-school dropout, Sumner is a former Thiel Fellow who founded a software tool kit for developers and sold his startup to Anthropic last year, when he became hooked on Claude Code.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Every time Claude got stuck, Sumner gave it a nudge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“These petitions are signed by 100,000 men and women, who...ask nothing less than universal emancipation,” said Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who presented the petitions on behalf of the Loyal League.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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