Averil
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Damages for unpaid wages initially totaled about $98 million, but because King County Superior Court Judge Averil Rothrock determined in January that Providence’s violations were willful, state law requires the total to be doubled.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2024
In urging Judge Averil Rothrock to keep Hernandez-Ebanks in the juvenile — rather than adult — legal system, his lawyers hailed the therapeutic benefits of Echo Glen Children’s Center.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023
Averil Power, chief executive of the Irish Cancer Society, called Ms. Phelan’s death heartbreaking.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022
He has just heard the last of a series of back-to-back inquests into the deaths of five women: Averil Hart, Emma Brown, Maria Jakes, Amanda Bowles and Madeline Wallace.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2020
Mrs. Raymond opined that Averil ought by then to have discovered the secret of managing the young man, and they went to tiffin on the veranda in excellent spirits.
From Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
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