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gladstone

[glad-stohn, -stuhn] / ˈglædˌstoʊn, -stən /
NOUN
portmanteau
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"I'm beyond excited to bring Gladstone Girls to the New Vic stage," Shenton said.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

The theatre itself also enters its fourth decade this year, with other highlights of its autumn season including the stage premiere of Stoke-on-Trent born Oscar winner Rachel Shenton's Gladstone Girls.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

According to senior author Isha Jain, PhD, a Gladstone Investigator, core investigator at Arc Institute, and professor of biochemistry at UC San Francisco, the study resolves a longstanding question in physiology.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

He refused a peerage four times from prime ministers Disraeli and Gladstone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

What Disraeli said of Gladstone was also true of Churchill: he was “a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith