Richard Roe
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Richard Roe
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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The four others who have sued are also seeking to retain their anonymity: John Doe, Charles Coe, Michael Moe and Richard Roe.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2021
In the final pages, Richard Roe is relieved of duty after a breakdown—Green’s rebuke to the evolving myth of the stoical “Blitz spirit”—and becomes frustrated as he struggles to recapture the experience of firefighting:
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016
The lawyer, Frederick M. Oberlander, has been described in court records as Richard Roe.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2012
The dispute is considered so sensitive that courts have substituted the name John Doe for the businessman, and Richard Roe for the lawyer who filed the case, Frederick M. Oberlander.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2012
Why did he not make him out a case of John Doe and Richard Roe, of John Stokes and John à Nokes?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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