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Vanderbilt

American

[van-der-bilt] / ˈvæn dər bɪlt /

noun

Cornelius, 1794–1877, U.S. financier.
Harold Stirling 1884–1970, U.S. business executive.

Vanderbilt British

/ ˈvændəbɪlt /

noun

Cornelius, known as Commodore Vanderbilt. 1794–1877, US steamship and railway magnate and philanthropist

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Infielder, James Tronstein, Harvard-Westlake, Sr.: The Vanderbilt commit had 52 hits, a .531 batting average and 10 home runs as the Mission League MVP.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Joel Dodge is the director of industrial policy & economic security at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

The A.I. economy is even bigger than that, with far more investor and fund exposure in the works, and a worse-case crash could hit up to $20 trillion in household wealth, per the Vanderbilt report.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

And in an age when many steamboats, cheaply built and poorly maintained, did, in the words of one contemporary, “a wholesale business in human slaughter,” Vanderbilt never lost a ship to fire, explosion or shipwreck.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Yet during the negotiations, Vanderbilt had noticed something strange.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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