Wheaton

American  

[hweet-n, weet-n] / ˈʰwit n, ˈwit n /

noun

1. a town in central Maryland.

2. a city in NE Illinois, W of Chicago.

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Example Sentences

Now, in “The Tower and the Ruin,” Michael Drout, a professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, sets out to do for Tolkien what Tolkien did for “Beowulf.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Joel has served as a Visiting Scholar of Race, Religion, and Politics at the University of St. Thomas and is a graduate of Wheaton College and Duke University.

From Salon

“Among all the energy investors I spoke to, there is a general feeling of slight bemusement that oil prices haven’t fallen further,” said Chris Wheaton, an oil and gas analyst at Stifel.

From The Wall Street Journal

Art Wheaton, director of Labor Studies at Cornell University, said the US might see more such announcements in the months ahead, but he did not expect to see new factories getting built anytime soon, given the significance of that investment and how fast the situation is changing.

From BBC

Celebrity authors and special guests Jenny Slate, Amanda Gorman, JoJo, Wil Wheaton and more came by to get their portraits taken at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books photo studio.

From Los Angeles Times