Yale

[yeyl]

noun

1. Elihu, 1648–1721, English colonial official, born in America: governor of Madras 1687–92; principal benefactor of the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Connecticut (now Yale University).

2. Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, one of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,196 feet (4,327 meters).

3. a male given name.

Example Sentences

And Yale hasn’t won one since 1927, a time when dancing the Charleston and reckless stock-market speculation were all the rage.

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Though she wasn’t yet finished exploring this theme, she wasn’t sure how to approach it next — until an experiment by Julio Correa, a former Yale graduate student, sparked an idea.

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The New York Times, Bloomberg, the Center for Global Development and the Budget Lab at Yale University, among others, confirm that their affiliations with him would end.

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While a student at Yale University, he began building underwater mines.

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And here is Yale University economist Pascual Restrepo imagining the consequences of “artificial general intelligence,” where machines can think and reason just like humans.

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