Jon

American

[jon] / dʒɒn /

noun

a male given name, form of John.

Jon. British

abbreviation

Jonah

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Pulitzer winner Stephen Adly Guirgis adapts the classic Sidney Lumet film about a Brooklyn bank heist in a production starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

From The Wall Street Journal

Athleticism again came into focus during the Ashes in January 2025, and former coach Jon Lewis attributed it to a cultural difference between the UK and Australia.

From BBC

This time, the agony fell on Duke, which not only had to contend with the soul-crushing loss but the stack of blunders which got them there, a lot of which fell on head coach/K successor Jon Scheyer.

From The Wall Street Journal

“This is not about one play,” Duke coach Jon Scheyer said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Luckily for us, “House of David” showrunner Jon Erwin emphasizes the grueling battle required to pull this off instead of the field surgery.

From Salon

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