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[jen-er-uhl] / ˈdʒɛn ər əl /




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It confuses people, convolutes them, merges records of people with similar names, and in general has been deemed unreliable by data experts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Although voters in general are poorly informed about how elections are conducted, they can and do respond to clear information familiarizing them with election processes.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

In one exchange, John Overdeck testified that he had a conversation with Matthew Siano, then Two Sigma’s general counsel, about removing Laura from their family foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

One day after Levine's beating, settlers attacked a convoy of European diplomats including the French and Belgian consuls general in Jerusalem as they went through the town of Taybeh in the West Bank on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

For more than the next one hundred years, the fate of the Hunley presented archaeologists, scholars, and the public in general with one of their greatest mysteries.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

One new sleuth is Carter Church, a 27-year-old AI engineer who decrypted a 19th-century letter to one of Napoleon's generals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Foran said that at the time, the colonies that later became Canada relied on Great Britain and its Royal Navy for its defence, as well as indigenous peoples who served as generals in major battles.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

To follow Alexander was, Mr. Richardson relates, for all but his luckiest generals, ultimately to sacrifice oneself “for another man’s dreams,” namely and tragically, to “break the limits of his humanity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

By one account, he has blocked the advancement of more than 80 generals and admirals.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Flanked by her Roman guards, she consulted with allies and generals and made decisions.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby


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