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Jesse

[ jes-ee ]

noun

  1. (in the Bible) the father of David.
  2. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “God exists.”


Jesse

/ ˈ»ćÏôɛČőÉȘ /

noun

  1. Old Testament the father of David (I Samuel 16)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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That man is wearing a Jesse Jackson for President hat, but he’s too intimidated to step in.

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He was a childhood friend of future Youngbloods singer Jesse Colin Young, who would champion Hurley’s skewed vision by releasing 1971’s “Armchair Boogie” and 1972’s “Hi Fi Snock Uptown” on his Warner Bros. imprint Raccoon.

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Trump’s view of international trade is also overly simplistic in that it attends only to the material goods the U.S. sells overseas and how much other nations sell in the U.S. without accounting for professional services that America sells in other countries, said Jesse Rothstein, another UC Berkeley economist.

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Beneath the fluorescent lighting of his hotel room in Pylos, Greece, Jesse Garcia combs through his greasy strands of hair after a daylong shoot for “The Odyssey” — Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie adaptation of the Greek epic.

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“Jesse does mask a lot of things with play,” she says.

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