Huggins

American  

[huhg-inz] / ˈhʌg ɪnz /

noun

1. Charles Brenton 1901–97, U.S. surgeon and medical researcher, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1966.

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Huggins British  

/ ˈhʌɡɪnz /

noun

1. Sir William. 1824–1910, British astronomer. He pioneered the use of spectroscopy in astronomy and discovered the red shift in the lines of a stellar spectrum

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Example Sentences

Huggins, whose petition has garnered more than 300 signatures at the time of writing, described artificial grass as being a "ticking time bomb".

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

“Some people would only be up there for a year, and they really couldn’t deal with the isolation,” Huggins said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Jay Huggins, a retired telecommunications technician who worked on several Greenlandic radar stations from 1988 to 1990, including near the Bluie East Two base, said the remoteness and brutal winters challenged young soldiers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

“The world is different, and it’s a serious time in the world,” Huggins said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

As early as 1868 the astronomer William Huggins found an identity between some features in the spectrum of a comet and the spectrum of natural or “olefiant” gas.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan