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Gary

American  
[gair-ee, gar-ee] / ˈgɛər i, ˈgær i /

noun

  1. Elbert Henry, 1846–1927, U.S. financier and lawyer.

  2. a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan.

  3. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “spear bearer.”


Gary British  
/ ˈɡærɪ /

noun

  1. a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan: a major world steel producer. Pop: 99 961 (2003 est)

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District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner disagreed in a ruling Wednesday, finding Seitz and his attorneys had not shown how his 1st Amendment rights had been violated.

From Los Angeles Times

A decade later, I sat in a seminar room at the University of Chicago listening to Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy present their work on the economics of illegal goods.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before John Wayne and Gary Cooper, there were the noble vaqueros of Mexico, myth-makers in their own right.

From Los Angeles Times

“The whole uncertainty of tariff policy is really not favorable for employment or investment in the real economy,” said Gary Clyde Hufbauer, economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal

Leicester, who appointed Gary Rowett as their new head coach on Wednesday, have yet to comment on their appeal.

From BBC