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Jaques

American  
[jey-kweez, -kwiz, jeyks] / ˈdʒeɪ kwiz, -kwɪz, dʒeɪks /

noun

  1. a disillusioned and satirical observer of life, in Shakespeare's As You Like It.


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Tirzah and 13-year-old Jaques “Jake” Patterson recently opened up about coping with immense grief after a mass shooting, an unceasing story across the nation.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

In his Times Opinion newsletter, Peter Coy examines the midlife crisis, a term coined by Elliott Jaques, a Canadian psychoanalyst, in 1965.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2022

The main innovation, Jaques says, was rewarding the system for getting humans to respond, “which is not that crazy from a technical perspective, but very important from a research-direction perspective.”

From Science Magazine • Sep. 18, 2022

Twelve-year-old Jaques Patterson, whose father, Heyward Patterson, will be laid to rest Friday, covered his face as his mother spoke of their grief.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2022

No doubt Shakespeare thought the tears of Jaques sentimental; but he put a piece of himself into Jaques.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil