Patterson

[ pat-er-suhn ]

noun

1. Eleanor Medill Cissy, 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
2. Floyd, 1935–2006, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1956–59, 1960–62.
3. Frederick Douglass, 1901–1988, U.S. educator; founder of United Negro College Fund.

Example Sentences

Extremely sick patients like Patterson require bespoke phage cocktails that perfectly match their microbes, and may even need new phages as the bacteria evolve.

From Salon

She attributes the new rise of interest in the U.S. in part to one very sick man: psychologist Thomas Patterson of San Diego.

From Salon

Patterson should have died from a nasty superbug picked up in Egypt in 2015 — except Patterson is married to bullheaded epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee.

From Salon

She learned of phages and orchestrated Patterson’s treatment, as Zeldovich summarizes and Strathdee and Patterson chronicle in their own excellent book, “The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug.”

From Salon

California Republican Party chair Jessica Millan Patterson said last week that the party recruited and trained thousands of volunteers to monitor the state’s ballot counting process and work on reaching out to voters whose ballots were flagged because of technical errors.

From Los Angeles Times