Radcliffe
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noun
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Ann . 1764–1823, British novelist, noted for her Gothic romances The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797)
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Paula ( Jane ). born 1973, British athlete, winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), gold medalist in the marathon at the World Championships (2005), and European record holder for the 10,000m.
Example Sentences
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Although Morgan and Radcliffe are the marquee names, it’s an ensemble piece, in which everyone gets to be funny; there are no weak links.
From Los Angeles Times
After finishing the ugly job assigned to him, Cyril Radcliffe burned all his papers, refused his handsome fee of 40,000 rupees and fled the subcontinent.
Radcliffe had been given six weeks to trace that gash through the map of British India.
The making of a new map that would wreck the lives of millions was assigned by the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee to Radcliffe, a respected lawyer who had never been east of Paris.
As Sam Dalrymple writes in “Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia,” the fact that Radcliffe “knew nothing of India was considered evidence of his potential as an unbiased mediator.”
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