Ferdinand
Americannoun
noun
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None of us ever met Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan or Vasco da Gama, the great explorers of history, but for more than 50 years astronauts have walked among us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
In the Philippines, some government offices have mandated that staff work from home at least one day a week, while President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has banned non-essential travel in the public sector.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
The new complaints, ruled "sufficient in substance" by a vote of 54-1, accuse her of graft and corruption while in office and of making a death threat against former ally President Ferdinand Marcos.
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026
Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, a former German auto-industry executive, said that the country’s large car manufacturers could handle the new 15% tariff for the 150-day period.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
But there was as yet no general crisis for the two-spheres theory: the geographers summoned by Ferdinand and Isabella to advise on Columbus’s plans had no hesitation in dismissing them out of hand.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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