Used in a Sentence

cohen

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cohen.

Editorial note

Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen wrote a book that was, in part, about the company's partnership with the DoS.

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Quick take

A surname from Hebrew. The most popular Jewish surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cohen gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from Hebrew. The most popular Jewish surname.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname.

noun

A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cohen.

noun

A surname from Hebrew. The most popular Jewish surname.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname.

noun

A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.

Example sentences

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Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen wrote a book that was, in part, about the company's partnership with the DoS.

2

Steve Cohen at SAC was famous for overpaying on commissions just to get the first call for new issues.

3

Check out the work by Simon Baron Cohen at Cambridge, which includes studies on newborns showing clear differences between genders.

4

Byrne took out a $100K ad in the WSJ in 2013, saying FU to SAC when Cohen was forced to scuttle his firm due to reg investigations.

5

What about all the people who got internet famous for dumb stuff like the mustard guy or folks that got pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen or the jackass guys?

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It's a private information retrieval system, proposed by Sassaman (Mixmaster), Cohen (Bittorrent), and Nick Mathewson (Tor), that had a lot of interesting ideas about how to facilitate the anonymous retrieval of email.

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You are using a Marxist analysis which is characterized by biased, myopic comparisons, and thinking based on personal preferences and sentiments, as well as the Cohen fallacy, and (unsurprisingly) reaching a Marxist result.

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>You are using a Marxist analysis which is characterized by biased, myopic comparisons, and thinking based on personal preferences and sentiments, as well as the Cohen fallacy, and (unsurprisingly) reaching a Marxist result.

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And if you've got a track record like Simon (and Steve Cohen and Ray Dalio and Paul Tudor Jones and DE Shaw and a few others) then you're likely way oversubscribed whenever you want to open a new fund and as a result can be very picky about whose money to take.

Quote examples

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The first reference at the bottom is: Baron-Cohen, Simon, “The essential difference: Male and female brains and the truth about autism” (2004) He must hate Sasha.

2

I was once in that situation and my life-saver was: "Yeah, I'm a big Leonard Cohen fan".

3

Having grown up with a small sprinkling of Yiddish words in my parents' vocabulary, I agree with Sasha Baron Cohen's character in The Dictator, where he says "I like Yiddish, the words sound like what they mean".

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"Steve Cohen at SAC was famous for overpaying on commissions " After a real estate deal last year I bought the broker a gift and delivered it.

Proper noun examples

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Probably most relevant is the work of Simon Baron Cohen, a respected researcher into ASD.

2

Unix got all the malware first, from a /bin/login trojan pre-Version 6, to Fred Cohen's 1984 virus, to the '88 RTM worm.

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There is a great talk [1] by Jason Cohen, that might inspire you to find joy in looking at the craft from a different angle.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cohen in a sentence?

Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen wrote a book that was, in part, about the company's partnership with the DoS.

What does cohen mean?

A surname from Hebrew. The most popular Jewish surname.

What part of speech is cohen?

cohen is commonly used as noun.