Wellesley
Americannoun
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Arthur. Wellington, 1st Duke of.
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his brother Robert Colley 1st Marquis, 1760–1842, British statesman and administrator, born in Ireland: governor general of India 1797–1805.
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a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
noun
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Arthur. See (1st Duke of) Wellington 2
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his brother, Richard Colley, Marquis Wellesley. 1760–1842, British administrator. As governor general of Bengal (1797–1805) he consolidated British power in India
Example Sentences
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Harvard spent years researching ways to fight grade inflation, including examining prior efforts at Princeton and Wellesley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
“We’ve been focused on growing our alternatives business,” says Wellington’s CEO Jean Hynes, who joined the firm in 1991, fresh out of Wellesley College.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
He’d purchased the clock in 1999 from a seller on EBay, a New Hampshire dealer who’d picked it up at an estate sale in Wellesley, Mass., for $280.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025
“The data of what happened at this stage of the Universe is very sparse,” according to Dr Lamiya Mowla of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, who co-led the research.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024
He said no, that she used to go to Wellesley College.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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