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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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Carney thrived as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before leading the central banks of Canada and England.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

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So, when Goldman Sachs slashes its target for the Kospi benchmark index by 25%, investors will need to sit up and pay attention as semiconductor stocks account for almost one-fifth of the S&P 500.

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As Asad Haider, a senior biopharma analyst at Goldman Sachs, explains, investors need to feel confident about medical innovation, nervous about the durability of profits elsewhere and at ease about policy headwinds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

And so, to generate $1 billion in triple-B-rated subprime mortgage bonds, Goldman Sachs did not need to originate $50 billion in home loans.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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