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Sachs

American  
[zahks] / zɑks /

noun

  1. Hans 1494–1576, German Meistersinger: author of stories, songs, poems and dramatic works.

  2. Nelly (Leonie), 1891–1970, German poet and playwright, in Sweden after 1940: Nobel Prize 1966.


Sachs British  
/ zaks /

noun

  1. Hans (hans). 1494–1576, German master shoemaker and Meistersinger, portrayed by Wagner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

  2. Nelly ( Leonie ). 1891–1970, German Jewish poet and dramatist, who escaped from Nazi Germany and settled in Sweden. Her works include Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel (1951) and `O the Chimneys', a poem about the Nazi extermination camps. Nobel prize for literature 1966 jointly with Shmuel Yosef Agnon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In short, this collection is many layered, like Mr. Sachs himself.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

He co-founded Coinbase in 2012 after leaving Goldman Sachs, where he worked as a foreign-exchange trader.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Rich Privorotsky of Goldman Sachs wrote in a note that the secondary implication of Bessent’s comments are what matters to stocks.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

In the span of just three months, Goldman Sachs analysts have gone from lowering their oil-price forecasts to hiking them.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

By August 2009 the president of Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn, even claimed, publicly, that Goldman Sachs had never actually needed government help, as Goldman had been strong enough to withstand any temporary panic.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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