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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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Another carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, was likewise ordered from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East last summer during the previous flare-up with Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Carson 5, West Torrance 0: Skylar Vinson threw five scoreless innings and also had two hits for the Colts.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 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