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Nathaniel

American  
[nuh-than-yuhl] / nəˈθæn yəl /

noun

  1. Bartholomew.

  2. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “gift of God.”


Example Sentences

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In 2022, the researchers traveled aboard the now-decommissioned U.S. icebreaker, the Nathaniel B. Palmer, to the Dotson Ice Shelf in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica.

From Science Daily

“The Scarlet Letter” has engraved Nathaniel Hawthorne’s name into our national psyche as a critic of tyrannical small-town morality.

From The Wall Street Journal

Skeptics particularly worried when prominent government officials—such as Ohio’s US Senator Benjamin Wade, former Wisconsin governor Nathaniel Tallmadge, and New York Supreme Court Justice John Edmonds—went public about their firm belief in the ability of the dead to talk to the living.

From Literature

Cancer patient Nathaniel Dye - who worked on the bill with Leadbeater - said it would allow people a death which was "as kind and compassionate as possible".

From BBC

Steve Lopez started writing about Nathaniel Ayers when the men were in their 50s.

From Los Angeles Times