Whitney
Americannoun
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Eli, 1765–1825, U.S. manufacturer and inventor.
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John Hay, 1904–82, U.S. diplomat and newspaper publisher.
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Josiah Dwight, 1819–96, U.S. geologist.
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William Dwight, 1827–94, U.S. philologist and lexicographer (brother of Josiah Dwight).
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Mount, a mountain in E California, in the Sierra Nevada. 14,495 feet (4,418 meters).
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a male given name.
noun
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Eli. 1765–1825, US inventor of a mechanical cotton gin (1793) and pioneer manufacturer of interchangeable parts
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William Dwight. 1827–94, US philologist, noted esp for his Sanskrit Grammar (1879)
noun
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After Whitney Houston scored a massive hit with “I Will Always Love You” in the early 1990s, she invested some of her royalties from the song in a Black neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Parton referred to the property as “the house that Whitney built.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
But she wasn't crying in 1992 when Whitney Houston's power-ballad cover became a hit.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In 1992, Whitney Houston turned the song into a massive hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
That same year she enrolled in the University of Michigan under a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, a program designed to match talented Negro scholars with the country’s most competitive graduate programs.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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