Used in a Sentence

paley

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

Editorial note

There's also the Paley Center for Media[1], formerly the Museum of Television & Radio, in New York.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A surname.

noun

A female given name.

noun

A commune in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paley.

noun

A surname.

noun

A female given name.

noun

A commune in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.

Example sentences

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There's also the Paley Center for Media[1], formerly the Museum of Television & Radio, in New York.

2

The famous question, asked by Paley and others, was: where did complexity come from?

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Climbing is popular amongst physicists and mathematicians—Raymond Paley and Jacques Herbrand come to mind.

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There's a doctor named Paley in Florida who specializes in lengthening limbs.

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I'm sure the doctors could easily find out about Paley if they looked into it.

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Nina Paley released Sita Sings The Blues under Creative Commons because nobody was able to watch her film because studios like Sony Pictures passed her up.

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Nina Paley was against copyright, and she's still against copyright.

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I saw this movie a few weeks ago when a friend interviewed Nina Paley and she gave him a copy of the DVD.

Quote examples

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Paley’s Natural Theology, which originated the famous “watchmaker” analogy for God, was from 1802.

2

Do the math." - Nina Paley Just because something makes it to the frontpage of HN doesn't automatically make it worthy of further investigation.

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"Can people go around the system?" Sulzberger asked during an appearance at The Paley Center for Media here.

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As content creator Nina Paley put it "Attention is scarce.

Proper noun examples

1

The teleological argument Aquinas is famous for (his Fifth Way) is not the Paley-style argument some people think it is.

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Turing was not, of course, trying to refute Paley; that has been done almost a century earlier by Charles Darwin.

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The best known statement of it is William Paley's (1802) famous metaphor of a watchmaker.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use paley in a sentence?

There's also the Paley Center for Media[1], formerly the Museum of Television & Radio, in New York.

What does paley mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is paley?

paley is commonly used as noun.