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Sheldon

[ shel-duhn, -dn ]

noun

  1. a male given name.


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Sheldon’s work theorized that a person’s physique was reflective of certain personality traits.

From Vox

This notion has been roundly debunked by modern scientists and scholars, but remnants of Sheldon’s ideas linger in popular culture.

From Vox

Young Sheldon, its spinoff which trades on the same caricature, was a top-10 show.

From Time

“We were fortunate that we were in the right place at the right time, that we had the space available to use,” Sheldon said.

Sheldon, on his day off, called the CEO of the resort, who agreed to invite the entire wedding party to resume the celebration there — free of charge.

Both Sheldon Leonard, who created the show, and Robert Culp, who was his co-star, were socially conscious.

Sheldon becomes a professor, but no students sign up for his class because his reputation as being insufferable precedes him.

Sheldon Adelson is expected to be the single largest giver to those committees so his role is very important.

More will be raised from a smaller number of contributors—maybe as few as 40,000 (about the number of Americans named “Sheldon”).

That is unless you happen to be billionaire Sheldon Adelson.

This must have been, I suppose, a Sheldon junior, son or nephew of the lieutenant-general of horse.

In Tyrconnel's regiment of horse, Dominick Sheldon appears as lieutenant-colonel.

Sheldon's wife and infant child, his brother-in-law, and his son-in-law had been killed.

These and other papers on the same subject have been recently printed by Mr. George Sheldon, of Deerfield.

Mr. George Sheldon has also traced out with great minuteness the history of his ancestor's negotiations.

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