Benedick
Americannoun
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(in Shakespeare'sMuch Ado About Nothing ) the confident bachelor who courts and finally marries Beatrice.
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(lowercase) benedict.
Example Sentences
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His next project was Much Ado About Nothing, a masterpiece, set in an Italian villa with his then partner Emma Thomson playing Beatrice joyfully to his Benedick.
From BBC
“This is perhaps the most historically significant international environmental agreement,” Richard E. Benedick, the chief United States negotiator, said at the time.
From New York Times
Mr. Benedick, who was a career diplomat in the State Department when the Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987, and who patiently wore down opposition from foreign nations while withstanding powerful internal critics in the Reagan administration, died on March 16 in Falls Church, Va. He was 88.
From New York Times
“We just want to keep getting better every day and make it back to states,” Coach Bailey Benedick said.
From Washington Post
Benedick sees her own handprint each time she walks into the dugout.
From Washington Post
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