Gatesian

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1. Of or pertaining to Henry Louis Gates (born 1950), American critic and scholar, or his theories or writings.

   In a Gatesian sense, Naylor signifies on Cane in her work...

   2001, Shirley A Stave, Gloria Naylor: strategy and technique, magic and myth

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   The central critique of the applicability of Gatesian revisionism for a narrative of African American women's literary tradition was framed by Hortense Spillers in 1985...

   1999, Katherine Clay Bassard, Spiritual interrogations

   Further, Walker is signifying in a Gatesian way on a particularly racialized history...

   2004, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Seeing the unspeakable: the art of Kara Walker

2. Of or pertaining to Bill Gates (born 1955), American businessman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

   ...paint a grandiose picture about what Microsoft could do, the Gatesian vision.

   1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard drive: Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft empire

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   Friends and vague listeners may have heard me urging a "Gatesian" computerized approach...

   2008, James A Duke, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Andrea R Ottesen, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America

   The projector and the computer bump into each other in Gatesian cyberspace, and we're off.

   2008, David P Reiter, Primary Instinct