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Jeff

[ jef ]

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Jeffrey.


jeff

/ ɛ /

verb

  1. to downsize or close down (an organization)
  2. to reduce (staff numbers) or dismiss (an employee)
  3. to spoil or destroy ruthlessly
“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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Jeff1

C20: named after Jeff Kennett, former premier of the state of Victoria, Australia
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As the Washington Post’s Jeff Stein flagged on Thursday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Counsellor to the President Peter Navarro and Trump himself gave three contradictory answers in just a few hours on Thursday on whether the manufactured trade war was a ploy for leverage or a bid to liberate America from foreign trade forever.

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Her father, Jeff, was a star pitcher at Crespi and in the major leagues.

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One confirmed bidder is Perplexity, an AI search startup which counts Amazon's Jeff Bezos among its backers.

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To get to play with someone like Jeff, who is so mercurial and cerebral yet is so playful — and then he goes dark — was a joy.

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The regulatory scrutiny is happening as Google faces questions about whether AI, which can quickly generate summaries of information, will “seriously impair their core search business,” said Jeff Wlodarczak, a principal and senior analyst at Pivotal Research Group.

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