Aubrey
Americannoun
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John, 1626–97, English antiquary.
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a first name: from Germanic words meaning “elf ” and “ruler.”
noun
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Joe Wengert co-created “Kevin” with ex-girlfriend/series voice actor Aubrey Plaza as a cathartic thought experiment about their actual pet cat, Kevin.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026
Dr Wendy Aubrey, a senior anaesthetist, had intubated Preston – that is inserted a small tube into his throat to get oxygen to his lungs.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
In an appearance on the podcast “Good Hang With Amy Poehler,” “Parks and Recreation” actor Aubrey Plaza discusses her feelings after the sudden death of her husband, Jeff Baena.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
It changed Aubrey Beardsley, the illustrator and author who was a major figure of the Decadents, a group of artists and writers in the 1890s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
As John Aubrey put it more than a century later, Recorde ‘was the first that wrote a good arithmetical treatise in English’ and ‘the first that ever wrote of astronomie in the English tongue’.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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