Gordon
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Charles George Chinese GordonGordon Pasha, 1833–85, British general: administrator in China and Egypt.
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Charles William, real name of Ralph Connor.
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Lord George, 1751–93, English politician.
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George Hamilton, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 1784–1860, British statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1852–55.
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Mary (Catherine), born 1949, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
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a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “round hill.”
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Adam Lindsay. 1833–70, Australian poet and horseman, born in the Azores, who developed the bush ballad as a literary form, esp in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870)
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Charles George, known as Chinese Gordon. 1833–85, British general and administrator. He helped to crush the Taiping rebellion (1863–64), and was governor of the Sudan (1877–80), returning in 1884 to aid Egyptian forces against the Mahdi. He was killed in the siege of Khartoum
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Sir Donald . born 1930; South African businessman
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Dexter ( Keith ). 1923–90, US jazz tenor saxophonist
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Lord George. 1751–93, English religious agitator. He led the Protestant opposition to legislation relieving Roman Catholics of certain disabilities, which culminated in the Gordon riots (1780)
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George Hamilton. See (4th Earl of) Aberdeen 2
Example Sentences
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But too many square pegs were plugged into round holes as Joelinton started on the left, forward Nick Woltemade was fielded in midfield and winger Anthony Gordon led the line.
From BBC
Sure enough, Gordon was dispossessed far too easily by Iliman Ndiaye in the build-up to Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall picking out Barry at the back post.
From BBC
But the company will also need to pay down a lot of debt to get back to an investment-grade credit rating, which Paramount Chief Strategy Officer Andy Gordon said the company was “absolutely committed to” in an earnings call on Wednesday.
Despite the new AI narrative that has taken hold, the economy is still resilient—indicating that the idiosyncratic moves of the past few weeks could smooth out at some point, said Kevin Gordon, head of macro research and strategy at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.
Gordon pointed to the fact that investors haven’t moved completely into risk-off mode: Stock sectors such as industrials and real estate, typically susceptible to ebbs and flows in economic growth, were among the S&P 500’s best-performing in February.
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