Steele

American

[steel] / stil /

noun

Sir Richard, 1672–1729, English essayist, journalist, dramatist, and political leader; born in Ireland.
Mount, a mountain in SW Yukon Territory, Canada, on the Alaska border in the St. Elias Range. 16,644 feet (5,074 meters).

Steele British

/ stiːl /

noun

Sir Richard. 1672–1729, British essayist and dramatist, born in Ireland; with Joseph Addison he was the chief contributor to the periodicals The Tatler (1709–11) and The Spectator (1711–12)

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Mr. Steele opens his book with a hypothetical: a parent-teacher conference in an American middle school in which the student and his parents are black and the teacher is white.

From The Wall Street Journal

Steele wishes his No. 21-ranked team could have played a tougher schedule, if only to give the RedHawks more juice in the algorithms.

From The Wall Street Journal

The two-time African player of the year won the penalty after being dragged back by Pascal Gross, then slammed the ball over Jason Steele to complete the scoring.

From Barron's

Eager to make himself something more than an awkward kid with sweaty palms and a bowl haircut who couldn’t read, Newsom mimicked Remington Steele, the suave character on the popular 1980s detective show.

From Los Angeles Times

“It was something that only the elite did,” said Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

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