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Boris

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[bawr-is, bohr-, bor-, buh-ryees] / ˈbɔr ɪs, ˈboʊr-, ˈbɒr-, bʌˈryis /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius says men of military age in Germany do not need to report lengthy stays abroad.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

A total of 52.5% of voters in Wales backed Brexit in 2016 and Boris Johnson secured a bumper number of Welsh Conservative MPs in the 2019 general election with his promise to "Get Brexit Done".

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius later said Berlin was "not ruling anything out".

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

On a February podcast, Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code, declared that “the title software engineer is going to start to go away.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Bobby thought he’d easily walk through the Mar Del Plata tournament until he learned that David Bronstein and Fridrik Olafsson were also going to play, in addition to the twenty-three-year-old grandmaster from Leningrad, Boris Spassky.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady