Buchan

American  

[buhk-uhn, buhkh-uhn] / ˈbʌk ən, ˈbʌx ən /

noun

1. John Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875–1940, Scottish novelist and historian: governor general of Canada 1935–40.

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Buchan British  

/ ˈbʌkən /

noun

1. John , 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. 1875–1940, Scottish statesman, historian, and writer of adventure stories, esp The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) and Greenmantle (1916); governor general of Canada (1935–40)

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Example Sentences

The musical, written by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, is not the glittering spectacle many Broadway audiences expect—but neither was “Maybe Happy Ending,” last year’s little show that could, and did, win the Tony for best musical.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I read and reread Thucydides,” the British novelist and politician John Buchan recalled in his memoir of World War I, “for he also had lived among crumbling institutions.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Buchan realized that “an old regime was passing away,” and that the “vanishing” of one world and the arrival of another was “apt to crush those who had to meet it.”

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Thucydides mapped how individual and group psychology shaped what Buchan called war’s “apocalyptic splendor of design,” and how its savage action can be set in motion by democracy’s susceptibility to the power of words and charisma.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The Liverpool pilot showed that community testing can work, and it works well if it is nationally flexible and locally grounded,” Iain Buchan, the University of Liverpool professor leading the trial, told reporters.

From Reuters