Bradley
Americannoun
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Bill William Warren, born 1943, U.S. basketball player and politician: senator from New Jersey 1979–97.
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Francis Herbert, 1846–1924, English philosopher.
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Henry, 1845–1923, English lexicographer and philologist.
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Omar Nelson, 1893–1981, U.S. general: Chief of Staff 1948–49; chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1949–53.
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Thomas Tom, 1917–1998, U.S. politician: mayor of Los Angeles 1973–93.
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a town in NE Illinois.
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a male given name.
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A ( ndrew ) C ( ecil ). 1851–1935, English critic; author of Shakespearian Tragedy (1904)
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F ( rancis ) H ( erbert ). 1846–1924, English idealist philosopher and metaphysical thinker; author of Ethical Studies (1876), Principles of Logic (1883), and Appearance and Reality (1893)
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Henry . 1845–1923, English lexicographer; one of the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary
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James . 1693–1762, English astronomer, who discovered the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis
Example Sentences
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America’s first permanent federal bankruptcy law, enacted in 1898, was designed for businesses, but individuals discovered its benefits, as Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Bradley A. Hansen explain in “Bankrupt in America.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Sources stress that if Liverpool bring in Bradley Barcola, who Paris St-Germain value in excess of £100m, then there will be limitations to what more they can do in the market.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Arsenal have also explored a move for Paris St-Germain winger Bradley Barcola.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
One of the few fixtures was center Bradley Bozeman, who Pro Football Focus rated 40th out of 40 players who qualified at that position.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Now that my oldest brother, Samuel, was a freshman at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, that left my sixteen- year-old brother, Chester, as the oldest child at home.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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