Alden

[ awl-duhn ]

noun

1. John, 1599?–1687, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
2. a first name: from an Old English word meaning “old friend.”

Example Sentences

Indeed, Tribune’s board praised Alden’s bid for being “not subject to any financing condition,” when it supported the proposal in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

From Washington Post

Alden and its managing partner, Heath Freeman, are known for aggressively cutting newspaper jobs to spur profits, and are currently the leading bidder for Tribune Publishing.

From Washington Post

MediaNews Group executives also signed an agreement saying it had no intention to make any future investments in funds sponsored or controlled by Alden.

From Washington Post

Alden, which ironically avoids press scrutiny while profiting from journalism, is notorious within the news industry for slashing the operations of the publications it acquires to boost their profitability.

From Washington Post

“Nonprofit ownership may not be the perfect solution, but it’s a way better solution than partial or full Alden ownership,” tweeted statehouse reporter Pamela Wood.

From Washington Post

Nor is it clear why so many of the characters in the subplots, including Van Alden and Eli, have been shifted to Chicago.

From The Daily Beast

The Border Patrol has already doubled in size since 2006, and has faced "real recruiting challenges," Alden notes.

From The Daily Beast

Five-year-old twins Holly and Poppy Alden were given the job as their father, Ben, sings in the chapel's choir.

From The Daily Beast

This one, in the imaginative hands of Gehry, the Mulleavys, and director Christopher Alden, is in a different realm altogether.

From The Daily Beast

Edward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

From The Daily Beast

At midnight the Alden was plunging into creaming seas, her five masts thrummed by the blast.

From Project Gutenberg

The captain intended to remain at the inlet tmtil a representative of the Alden's owners arrived.

From Project Gutenberg

I reckon that you and I as gents and master mariners are going to keep mum about her being aboard the Alden?

From Project Gutenberg

On the morning of December 31, 1913, Cape Alden was abeam, and a strong wind swept down from the highlands.

From Project Gutenberg

At twelve oclock Draper conducted Alden, who was slightly intoxicated, to his own door, and left him there with the prisoner.

From Project Gutenberg