gates

[geyts] / geɪts /

NOUN

movable barrier at entrance

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bar door doorway exit fence port

STRONG

access conduit egress gateway issue lock opening passage portal portcullis slammer turnstile way weir

WEAK

revolving door

Example Sentences

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Bill Gates, Alphabet’s Google unit and oil company Devon Energy have also invested in Fervo.

From Barron's

Back then, IBM certainly wouldn’t have hired weird longish-haired geeks like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were working with chintzy little microprocessors that paled in comparison with IBM’s mighty mainframes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gates, a lifelong Republican, was first elected as Huntington Beach city attorney in 2014 and was reelected twice.

From Los Angeles Times

Bill Gates expressed ongoing concern about climate change, stating that market forces alone are insufficient to reduce climate-causing emissions.

From Barron's

These cuts “won’t be reversed overnight even though aid represented less than 1% of GDP even in the most generous countries,” Gates said.

From Barron's