Dubois

[ dy-bwah ]

noun

1. (Ma·rie) Eu·gène (Fran·çois Tho·mas) [m, a, -, ree, , œ, -, zhen, f, r, ah, n, -, swa, taw-, mah], 1858–1941, Dutch physical anthropologist and anatomist.

Dubois

/ djuːˈbwɑː /

noun

1. DuboisW(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)18681963MUSSOCIAL SCIENCE: sociologistWRITING: writerPOLITICS: political activist W ( illiam ) E ( dward ) B ( urghardt ). 1868–1963, US Black sociologist, writer, and political activist; a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Dubois

/ do̅o̅-bwä′ /

1. Dutch paleontologist who in 1891 discovered in Java a fossil hominid which he believed to be the so-called missing link between the apes and humans on the evolutionary ladder. He named it Pithecanthropus erectus , but it is now known as Homo erectus.

Example Sentences

Joshua DuBois: Anton, how did you get the moniker "Mr Health Care"?

From The Daily Beast

For years, Joshua DuBois sent inspirational devotionals to his boss Barack Obama.

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The Argentinian pontiff might just help save the American Christian church—if church leaders let him do it, says Joshua DuBois.

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DuBois writes some characters with more juiciness than others.

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Those books might seek to exonerate, but duBois wants to explain.

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A scene of a very different nature which occurred some years later was described to me by Madame Dubois.

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Another deed of gallantry, equal to anything ever told in fiction, was performed by a Captain Dubois of the French army.

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M. Dubois had only been joined at an hour considerably advanced by his assistants and his escort.

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M. Dubois rose in the utmost anxiety, and rushed out to discover the cause of this extraordinary tumult.

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An entire house had been placed at the disposal of M. Dubois by the new republican power.

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