Clifford
Americannoun
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Clark McAdams 1906–98, U.S. lawyer and government official.
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William Kingdon 1845–79, English mathematician and philosopher.
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a male given name.
Example Sentences
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"The strings just fell out," says Clifford Cheung, professor of theoretical physics and director of the Leinweber Forum for Theoretical Physics at Caltech.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Graduating college is “a massive change in your life — one of the biggest, outside of getting married and having kids,” said Clifford Cornell, a financial adviser at New York-based Bone Fide Wealth.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
Chesapeake Risk Advisors’ Clifford Rossi estimates that severe-delinquency rates could increase by 18%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
A grand jury indicted Clifford Proctor, 60, in September 2024, after the district attorney’s office reopened an investigation into the shooting death of Brendon Glenn.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026
The introductory lecture was given by Clifford Nass, the provocative Stanford University sociologist who two years earlier had gotten Dr. Strayer and Dr. Gazzaley together to think about the science of multitasking.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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