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Accad

British  
/ ˈækæd /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Akkad

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Dr. Michel Accad placed a stethoscope in the crook of my arm and pumped up the blood-pressure cuff around my right biceps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

People frequently get higher readings in doctors’ offices, so Accad often asks patients to measure their blood pressure at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

A classmate, 16-year-old Kiara Accad, said she had come to the United States from the Philippines believing that Columbus had discovered an uninhabited land.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2017

Scriptures do not state that Nimrod was the first monarch, but "the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh."

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Sargon I of Accad, and his son Naram-Sin, had already made expeditions into the far west.

From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

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