Horatio
Americannoun
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Sid co-created 1960s and ’70s children’s TV shows that featured colorful and quirky characters like Weenie the Genie, Horatio J. HooDoo and Cha-Ka the ape-boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Gen. Horatio Gates, who deployed a nonmilitary tool of war: propaganda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
Long before Samantha Lotus, there was William Horatio Bates, an ophthalmologist at the turn of the 20th century who developed the so-called Bates method for improving vision.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023
Horatio Castille from Banbury in Oxfordshire says he was handcuffed by officers after they received a possible sighting of Mr Khalife, who is on the run after escaping from Wandsworth prison.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
Horatio was as still as Hamlet was active, as silent as Hamlet was talkative.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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