Tilden
Americannoun
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Samuel Jones, 1814–86, U.S. statesman.
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William Tatem, Jr. 1893–1953, U.S. tennis player.
noun
Example Sentences
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Anuska Tilden, 67, was working on a jigsaw puzzle one recent morning at the local senior center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Two of the Green candidates who had to quit - James Tilden in Hackney Central ward and Muhammad Naser in Camden's Regent's Park ward - are teachers and therefore ineligible.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
That’s according to Vanessa Royle and Mariah Hilton Wood, co-founders of Tilden, a social, non-alcoholic beverage company.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025
Tilden Pierce of Plymouth, Mass., credited his diet of “Johnny cake and fat pork,” she wrote; he also thought bathing too frequently caused weakness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
It had blazed when he’d first seen Leo Tilden, but it was gone now.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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