Kirkpatrick

[ kurk-pa-trik ]

noun

1. Jeane (Jordan) [jeen], 1926–2006, U.S. diplomat: ambassador to the U.N. 1981–85.
2. Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, near Ross Ice Shelf. About 14,855 feet (4,528 meters).

Kirkpatrick

/ kɜːkˈpætrɪk /

noun

1. Mount Kirkpatrick
   a mountain in Antarctica, in S Victoria Land in the Queen Alexandra Range. Height: 4528 m (14 856 ft)

Example Sentences

Shirley Kirkpatrick was de-registered when her dentist moved private.

From BBC

Trained as a physicist, Sean M. Kirkpatrick has spent most of his career in government, much of it as an intelligence and technology expert for various Pentagon agencies, culminating in an 18-month stint as the government’s lead investigator of UFOs.

From Los Angeles Times

It was in that latter position — as the first director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, that Kirkpatrick came face to face with the tide of misinformation and disinformation infecting America’s public discourse on scientific matters.

From Los Angeles Times

“After painstakingly assembling a team of highly talented and motivated personnel to develop a rational, systematic and science-based strategy to investigate these phenomena,” Kirkpatrick wrote in a Scientific American op-ed in January, shortly after his December retirement from AARO, he and his team were overwhelmed by a “whirlwind of tall tales, fabrication and secondhand or thirdhand retellings of the same,” producing “a social media frenzy and a significant amount of congressional and executive time and energy spent on investigating these so-called claims.”

From Los Angeles Times

Kirkpatrick’s observations would be familiar to scientists examining the origins of COVID, a field in which the overwhelming weight of the evidence undermines a partisan theory positing a leak from a Chinese laboratory; or the rise in anti-vaccine claims; or even those examining the false assertion by the Trump/Vance campaign of Haitian immigrants stealing and eating household pets.

From Los Angeles Times