Aubrey

[aw-bree]

noun

1. John, 1626–97, English antiquary.

2. a first name: from Germanic words meaning “elf ” and “ruler.”

Aubrey

/ ˈɔːbrɪ /

noun

1. John. 1626–97, English antiquary and author, noted for his vivid biographies of his contemporaries, Brief Lives (edited 1898)

Example Sentences

“The counternarcotics mission has already opened new, unanticipated revenue lines,” said Aubrey Manes, senior director of mission at Vannevar Labs, a startup providing intelligence to national-security agencies.

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An independent review into the running of CDDFT, carried out by governance specialist Mary Aubrey, has also been published this week.

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The Aubrey review says "persistent concerns" had been raised since 2012, when the trust lost its status as a training centre for breast surgery services.

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Our credulity would snap if Mescal’s Shakespeare was the slick talker that his early biographer John Aubrey described as “very good company, of a very redie and pleasant smoothe Witt.”

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Margaret B. Stetz’s essay on the British illustrator Aubrey Beardsley illuminates this development.

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