Carnegie
Americannoun
-
Andrew, 1835–1919, U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland.
-
Dale, 1888–1955, U.S. author and teacher of self-improvement techniques.
-
a city in SW Pennsylvania.
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
We hadn’t gone more than two blocks when Grandpa motioned with his left hand and said, “There it is—that’s the Carnegie Library.”
From Literature
Russia believes it is winning on both the battlefield and the diplomatic front, said Tatiana Stanovaya, an analyst at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
“The timing is quite significant just on the back of the India-U.S. trade deal,” said Dinakar Peri, a fellow in the security studies program at Carnegie India, a think tank based in New Delhi.
“These social changes exist in a legal gray area,” said Andrew Leber, an assistant professor at Tulane University and a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East program.
Alexander Gabuev, the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin who played Putin in the exercise, pointed out that the smokescreen of “humanitarian” intervention was crucial to enable Russian conquest.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
