Saunders

British

/ ˈsɔːndəz /

noun

Dame Cicely . 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)

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Dr. Saunders said: "It is really exciting to discover how important the glycocalyx layer is on immune cells, and I hope that this research will help to lay the foundations for future advances in inflammatory disease treatment."

From Science Daily

"We had no idea what was going on, and then we saw the bus was burned and the car was burned, and then we saw black smoke all around the city from the window," Farah Saunders, a 53-year-old Canadian retiree, said.

From Barron's

The sky blacked by the smoke from flaming vehicles was visible from Saunders's suite in a luxury hotel along Puerto Vallarta's main strip.

From Barron's

"We were quite scared, we've never gone through something like this in Canada," said Saunders, who came here with her husband from Alberta, excited by the good reputation Vallarta has among their fellow citizens.

From Barron's

Core isn’t her only invention: Her surname had been Saunders, but she and Dangene, formerly McKay-Bailey, decided to adopt the “Enterprise” moniker when they married.

From The Wall Street Journal

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