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Hoover

[hoo-ver] / ˈhu vər /
NOUN
vacuum cleaner
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It’s just a really big flag with bright lights, draped on Hoover Dam for the next several weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

After leaving the central bank in 2011, Warsh, among other things, served as a lecturer at Stanford University’s business school and as a visiting fellow at the university’s Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

“Are we connecting with the viewer? They’re going to Boston Harbor. They’re going to the Hoover Dam and they’re hearing directly from the landmarks and they’re speaking personally. ‘

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

About the authors: Jon Hartley is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Later, he would replace his cowboy hat with a fedora and, like Hoover, take up golf, putting the ball across the immaculate greens, where the new American men of money and power and leisure gathered.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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