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Dix

American  
[diks] / dɪks /

noun

  1. Dorothea Lynde Dorothy, 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.

  2. Otto, 1891–1969, German painter and printmaker.


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Paul Dix, a UK-based teacher, expert in inclusive behaviour support and director of support organisation When The Adults Change, said "consistent adult behaviour" was "the absolute foundation of great education".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

In 1939, Dix was thrown in jail over an improbable accusation that he was involved in an assassination attempt against Hitler.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025

Dix is the first to go on trial.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

There’s a dog from “Guernica” and direct quotations from the notably antiwar German artists Otto Dix and George Grosz.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson