Richard

¹ American

[ri-shahrd, ree-shar] / rɪˈʃɑrd, riˈʃar /

noun

Maurice Rocket, 1921–2000, Canadian hockey player.

Richard ² American

[rich-erd] / ˈrɪtʃ ərd /

noun

a male given name.

Richard British

/ ˈrɪtʃəd /

noun

Sir Cliff , real name Harry Rodger Webb . born 1940, British pop singer. Film musicals include The Young Ones (1961) and Summer Holiday (1962)
Maurice , known as Rocket . (1921–2000); Canadian ice hockey player

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Times staff writers Richard Winton, Ben Wieder and Justine McDaniel contributed to this report.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

“This is not soybeans,” former CEO Richard Anderson once said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

To reach this conclusion, Rowan and colleagues analyzed a rare set of high quality seismic data collected with industry partners and in collaboration with the Turkana Basin Institute, founded by the late paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

One letter was written by Richard Kamei, a sociology professor at the school, and in it, Fraire is described as someone who “takes his education seriously.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

“No, but a lot of parents have picked their kids up. The principal is married to that Richard guy on TV.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

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