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Carnegian
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English
Etymology
From en Carnegie an
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to Andrew Carnegie or his legacy.
en 1907 Herbert N. Casson An Estimate of Andrew Carnegie The Independent https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Independent/P_xGAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22it+is+due+to+Carnegian+enterprise%22&pg=PA848&printsec=frontcover 62 848 It is due to Carnegian enterprise, more than to any other one cause, that the United States is now producing two-fifths of all the iron and steel in the world.
en 1912 Isaac F. Marcosson The Millionaire Yield of Pittsburgh Munsey's Magazine https://www.google.com/books/edition/Munsey_s_Magazine_for/OmWrOq7NDVkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22it+was+not+until+the+Carnegian%22&pg=PA783&printsec=frontcover 46 783 It was not until the Carnegian sunburst of steel in the eighties that the day of millions dawned.
en 1967 The Latin American Policy of the United States, An Historical Interpretation Samuel Flagg Bemis 322 A typically Carnegian feature of the Endowment's inter-American cultural program was the gift of collections of standard works on the history, literature, and politics of the United States, and on other subjects.