Selden
Americannoun
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George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
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John, 1584–1654, English historian, Orientalist, and politician.
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a city on N Long Island, in SE New York.
noun
Example Sentences
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If she could accept reduced circumstances, she would marry for love and choose the intelligent young lawyer, Lawrence Selden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Benjamin Royer is an Angeleno who will graduate in May with a master’s degree in specialized journalism from USC, where he received the Selden Ring Investigative Journalism Fellowship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
"Douglassarachne acanthopoda comes from the famous Mazon Creek locality in Illinois and is about 308 million years old," said lead author Selden.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
“There is something people can do: Their close relatives should donate their cheek swabs,” Selden said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
The election officials knew Henry Selden, a retired New York judge and Anthony’s ally in the abolition movement, by reputation, and they didn’t know what to do.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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