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Accad

British  
/ ˈækæd /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Akkad

"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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Dr. Michel Accad placed a stethoscope in the crook of my arm and pumped up the blood-pressure cuff around my right biceps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

People frequently get higher readings in doctors’ offices, so Accad often asks patients to measure their blood pressure at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

A classmate, 16-year-old Kiara Accad, said she had come to the United States from the Philippines believing that Columbus had discovered an uninhabited land.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2017

I have caused to be dug the Nahr-Hammurabi, a benediction for the people of Shumir and Accad.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin

This it is that explains the fact that so many inscriptions and tablets, while written in the dialect of Shumir or Accad, are Semitic in spirit and in the grade of culture they betray.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin

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