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Vinson

American  
[vin-suhn] / ˈvɪn sən /

noun

  1. Frederick Moore, 1890–1953, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1946–53.


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Chris Vinson, leader of the council's Conservative group, previously said the men had "loaded into rental vans" and then travelled to the town.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

“There’s so much money,” said Bryan Loocke, an energy partner at law firm Vinson & Elkins.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

“It is absurd to see a dictator,” Chief Justice Vinson wrote in his dissent in Youngstown Steel, “in a representative product of the sturdy democratic traditions of the Mississippi Valley.”

From Slate Jul. 22, 2025

Yet as we approached the USS Carl Vinson it filled the view out of the back of the Osprey tilt-rotor which was carrying us there, its deck packed with state-of-the-art warplanes.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2025

He’s the one who used to sing in that wild “scat” style: “Blip-blip-de-blop-de-blam-blam—” And people like Cootie Williams, and Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, who’d kid me about his conk—he had nothing up there but skin.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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