Nevil
Americannoun
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Nevil Muncaster, director of strategic water resources, said: "We would not be taking this step unless it was necessary to protect water supplies for everyone and the environment."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
It made Trenberth think of Nevil Shute’s 1957 science fiction novel “On the Beach,” in which a nuclear war wiped out the Northern Hemisphere, forcing survivors to flee to southeast Australia and New Zealand.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2025
Forty years later, Nevil Maskelyne, a magician and an astronomy enthusiast, filmed a total solar eclipse in North Carolina.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Rood Nevil, a local doctor, was treating wounds outside his local clinic, now nonfunctional after the quake’s destruction.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
“Do you know who compiled that table? Nevil Maskelyne! The royal astronomer of England! You’d be as apt to find a mistake in—well—in Newton’s Principia!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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