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Phillips

[fil-ips]

noun

  1. David Graham, 1867–1911, U.S. novelist.

  2. Jayne Anne, born 1952, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and novelist.

  3. Stephen, 1868–1915, English poet and playwright.

  4. Wendell, 1811–84, U.S. orator and reformer.



Phillips

/ ˈfɪlɪps /

noun

  1. Captain Mark. born 1948, English three-day-event horseman; married to Anne, the Princess Royal, divorced 1992

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Alec Phillips, Goldman Sachs’s chief U.S. political economist, estimated in a Nov. 2 research note that if the shutdown lasts around six weeks, it could reduce quarter-on-quarter annualized real growth in gross domestic product over the final three months of 2025 by 1.15 percentage points, “primarily as a result of federal employee furloughs.”

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Howard Phillips, from Harlow, Essex, wanted to pass on personal information about former Defence Secretary Sir Grant Shapps.

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The Conservative MP recalled going to Mr Phillips's house after moving to a new home in 2002.

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Phillips, 66, was found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service under the National Security Act and was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court in Hampshire.

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Phillips offered to help two agents who he thought were from the country's intelligence service, but who were actually undercover British intelligence officers.

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