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Bierce

American  
[beers] / bɪərs /

noun

  1. Ambrose (Gwinnett) 1842–1914?, U.S. journalist and short-story writer.


Bierce British  
/ bɪəs /

noun

  1. Ambrose ( Gwinett ). 1842–?1914, US journalist and author of humorous sketches, horror stories, and tales of the supernatural: he disappeared during a mission in Mexico (1913)

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What’s more, it turns out that the occultist’s inner circle included Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett and, most important, the Weird Tales author Clark Ashton Smith.

From Washington Post Jan. 27, 2023

Locklin described this version of himself in a poem as “a starving Ambrose Bierce or some long-suffering, taller brother of Edgar Allan Poe.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2021

There’s a reason why Ambrose Bierce described the telephone as “an invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable keep his distance.”

From Fox News Jul. 14, 2019

Imagine my shock when I discovered Ambrose Bierce.

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2018

Didn’t you lure Ambrose Bierce to the Mexican border?”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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