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Atwood

[ at-wood ]

noun

  1. Margaret (Eleanor), born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist.


Atwood

/ ˈætwʊd /

noun

  1. AtwoodMargaret (Eleanor)1939FCanadianWRITING: poetWRITING: novelist Margaret ( Eleanor ) born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist. Her novels include Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid's Tale (1986), Alias Grace (1996), the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin (2000), and Oryx and Crake (2003)
“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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For each of the three macronutrients – proteins, carbohydrates and fats – Atwood devised a percentage of the calories they contained that would actually be metabolizable.

Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam are the three novels that comprise Atwood’s trilogy, which takes place before and after an apocalyptic plague.

What distinguishes Atwood’s dystopia from other fictional corporatocracies is her emphasis on biotech run amok.

Atwood and her colleagues are still analyzing how much of that carbon dioxide makes it into Earth’s atmosphere.

One of the rocks hit Krystyn Atwood, a black girl, and another hit Emily Harr, a white girl.

Tattoos with quotes from Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut line her body.

Misty White Sidell speaks to costume designer Colleen Atwood about the changes.

“I was relieved and happy that the reaction was positive, because it is an iconic film in the costume area,” Atwood explains.

Enter Garjan Atwood, a multi-talented digital artist who unveils an unusual new photographic project, in O sense.

The convives on this occasion were merely the admiral himself, Greenly, and Atwood.

"Sir Wycherly does not attend to his cases," put in Atwood, drily.

On this hint, Atwood resumed the pen, and the vice-admiral his duties.

Atwood's machine was the outcome of studies into the relations between force and a body to which force may be applied.

Your grandfather had a brother, Jemmy Atwood, who kept a china shop up Third street.

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