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  Eccles

  noun

  Sir John Carew 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
• eccles.
  eccles.

  abbreviation

  ecclesiastic.
• Eccles.
  Eccles.

  abbreviation

  Ecclesiastes.

Eccles

¹ American  

[ek-uhlz] / ˈɛk əlz /

noun

1. Sir John Carew 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.

2. Marriner Stoddard 1890–1977, U.S. economist and banker.

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eccles. ² American  

Or eccl.

abbreviation

1. ecclesiastic.

2. ecclesiastical.

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Eccles. ³ American  

Or Eccl.

abbreviation

Bible.

1. Ecclesiastes.

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Eccles ¹ British  

/ ˈɛkəlz /

noun

1. a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 36 610 (2001)

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Eccles ² British  

/ ˈɛkəlz /

noun

1. Sir John Carew. 1903–97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses

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Eccles. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. Ecclesiastes

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The overhaul of the Eccles Building and the adjacent 1951 Constitution Avenue Building was approved by the Fed’s board in 2017, when Powell was the governor overseeing the board’s administrative matters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Fed Inspector-General Michael Horowitz on Wednesday released his report into cost overruns on renovations of the Fed’s main Eccles building and an office complex across the street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

One of the event's organisers, Dan Nixon, said it was good to see Eccles finally win.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

There are ways to treat HSD, Dr Eccles says, but no "single magic bullet".

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

We have a better authenticated case in the one mentioned by Dr. Eccles in the Edinburgh Medical Essays for 1720.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Spenser. dim. diminutive. opp. opposed. subj. subjunctive. dub. doubtful. opt. optics. suff. suffix. eccles. ecclesiastical history. orig. originally. superl. superlative. e.g. for example. ornith. ornithology. surg. surgery. elect. electricity.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Fellow taxi driver Stuart Ryan said of Mr Henning, also known as Gadget: "He's the greatest man you'd ever meet. Gadget is the taxi driver of Eccles. Everybody knows him."

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2014

A second text abused, for supporting their forementioned principle, is Eccles. x, 4: "If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place, for yielding pacifieth great offenses."

From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by The Reformed Presbytery

But our kind Father showed us still further today, that only for the trial of our faith He had for a season withheld supplies; for there was given this evening with Eccles. ix.

From A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part by George Müller

Last evening 5l. came in with Eccles. ix.

From A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part by George Müller

Of this any one may assure himself by referring to Eccles. v.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman