Waldo

American  

[wawl-doh, wol-] / ˈwɔl doʊ, ˈwɒl- /

noun

1. Pierre or Peter, died c1217, French merchant and religious reformer, declared a heretic: founder of the Waldenses.

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waldo British  

/ ˈwɔːldəʊ /

noun

1. a gadget for manipulating objects by remote control

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Etymology

Origin of waldo

C20: named after Waldo F. Jones, inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert Heinlein

Example Sentences

Other American paragons of virtue who were publicly opposed at the time: William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass.

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“Now, I completely know what it means. Waldo, this protagonist, her voice — I was waking up in the middle of the night thinking of this character.”

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Elsewhere, she imbued the story with elements of familiarity: Waldo has similar unruly curls to McCurdy’s; Waldo’s best friend is Mormon, the religion in which McCurdy was raised; and Waldo lives in Anchorage, where McCurdy’s partner of nine years is from, and where McCurdy said she has spent many months.

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Rage is something she expects many female readers to feel as they follow Waldo’s journey in “Half His Age.”

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The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, an independent research nonprofit funded by the insurance industry, performed similar investigations for Colorado’s 2012 Waldo Canyon fire, Hawaii’s 2023 Lahaina fire and California’s Tubbs, Camp and Woolsey fires of 2017 and 2018.

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