Whitaker

American  

[hwit-uh-ker, wit-] / ˈʰwɪt ə kər, ˈwɪt- /

noun

1. a male given name.

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Whitaker British  

/ ˈwɪtəkə /

noun

1. Sir Frederick. 1812–91, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister of New Zealand (1863–64; 1882–83)

2. Forrest (Steven) , born 1961, US actor and film director; his films include (as actor) Ghost Dog (1999) and The Last King of Scotland (2006); (as director) Waiting to Exhale (1995)

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Example Sentences

That distinction was unmistakable at a recent screening of Forest Whitaker’s 1995 romantic dramedy “Waiting to Exhale” as part of a Cult Classics Cinema event at Inglewood’s Miracle Theater.

From Los Angeles Times

Some of it’s based on the reality; for instance — I was thinking of this today — next season would be Whitaker’s third year, so he has one more year to stay here, and then he would have to go.

From Los Angeles Times

Doctors like Mel King, whose neurodivergence manifests as open, radical caring and diagnostic precision, or Whitaker, who was revealed to be unhoused himself at the end of his first season baptism by disaster.

From Salon

During a morning breakout session on the second day, David Whitaker, an instructor who owns a real-estate auction company in Iowa, paused to watch four students recite numbers in metrical increments: “two-two-two and a quarter, two and a half, two and three-quarters.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Sloan and Mikkelsen are terrific together, but you feel that there is much more they could have sunk their teeth into here, and perhaps the limits of the tale reveal the limits of the budget, carefully wallpapered over with opulent production design — explosions of patterns and color crafted by Jeremy Reed, captured with shadowy but lush cinematography by Nicole Hirsch Whitaker.

From Los Angeles Times