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Kenneth

American  
[ken-ith] / ˈkɛn ɪθ /

noun

  1. a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “handsome.”


Example Sentences

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From just before the Wall fell to now, the “guns” sector had the third-best total return out of 49 U.S. sectors defined by Kenneth French, a Dartmouth finance professor.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet unlike just about everyone else, she rejected Ab Ex’s angst-driven layering, inventing, instead, an influential method of staining unprimed canvas with floods of thin color, offering many artists, including such older men as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, an alternative to loaded gestures.

From The Wall Street Journal

Thursday’s meeting was packed with supporters of City Controller Kenneth Mejia, who feared that the commission would gut his office’s watchdog role.

From Los Angeles Times

“Kenneth has been the only form of government that we have felt has represented us as a community,” Riley said.

From Los Angeles Times

A research team led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, has identified a strong candidate for one of the earliest known spiral galaxies with a stellar bar.

From Science Daily