Gideon
Americannoun
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Also called Jerubbaal. (in the Bible) a judge of ancient Israel and conqueror of the Midianites.
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a member of the Gideons International, a society founded in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
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a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “great destroyer.”
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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the country had implemented measures announced on 8 September in response to UK sanctions.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he had spoken with his UAE counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and agreed "to collaborate against extremist elements seeking to harm security and undermine stability".
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz breaks down the science and concludes that the results are actually pretty reassuring.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
Only one unfortunate choice mars the whole—the original reproductions of artwork that appear in the original Russian editions are replaced by lovely but abstract images by Gideon Bosker designed to evoke the text.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I believe Gideon himself might have looked there if he hadn’t been trying to raise a daughter on the road.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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