Hays
Americannoun
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Will (Harrison), 1879–1954, U.S. lawyer, politician, and official of the motion-picture industry.
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a city in central Kansas.
Example Sentences
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Claire Hays Montaigne, a new mother and a physician, lived heroically for two years with her cancer as we and her doctors scoured the globe for a breakthrough drug.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Ch Supt Adam Hays said: "This is a tragic incident. We are at the very early stages of our inquiries."
From BBC • May 13, 2026
“EM has shown it’s not a beta asset class that has to underperform in a risk-off environment,” Hays says.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
Last week, the two guys who host it, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, sold it to OpenAI for a sum that the Financial Times reported was in the “low hundreds of millions.”
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026
Hays grew suspicious and watched Mudgett closely—albeit not closely enough.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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