Theodore

[thee-uh-dawr, -dohr]

noun

1. a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”

Example Sentences

The club—whose members have included Edmund Hillary, Theodore Roosevelt, James Cameron and Jeff Bezos—was founded in 1904 and has long been criticized as a relic of Victorian-era imperialism that caters to older, wealthy white men.

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Father Theodore Hesburgh, the president of Notre Dame, was more interested in building an academic institution than a football powerhouse, and was determined to bring the coach to heel.

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Work has commenced on a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, the first known new construction to expand the White House’s footprint since President Theodore Roosevelt had the West Wing added in 1902 and his successor, President William Howard Taft, doubled it in size.

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The agency is working with the Theodore Payne Foundation to expand its water-efficient landscape certification program to include training contractors in how to properly maintain a native plant landscape, she said.

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It is causing more extreme heat, which dries out vegetation, increasing flammability, said Theodore Keeping, wildfire scientist at the centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.

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