Blackwell

[ blak-wuhl, -wel ]

noun

1. Antoinette Louisa (Brown), 1825–1921, U.S. clergywoman, abolitionist, and women's-rights activist.
2. Elizabeth, 1821–1910, U.S. physician, born in England: first woman physician in the U.S.
3. Henry Brown, 1825?–1909, U.S. editor, abolitionist, and suffragist, born in England (husband of Lucy Stone).

Blackwell

/ blăck′wĕl′ /

1. British-born American physician who was the first woman doctor in the United States. In 1851 she founded an infirmary for women and children in New York City that her sister Emily Blackwell (1826–1910), also a physician, directed. Emily Blackwell was the first woman doctor to perform major surgeries on a regular basis.

Example Sentences

Blackwell and his colleagues at Ieso are pioneering a new approach to mental-health care in which the language used in therapy sessions is analyzed by an AI.

From MIT Technology Review

Blackwell and his colleagues are not the only ones chasing this vision.

From MIT Technology Review

There are around 450 different types of psychotherapy that you can get your insurer to pay for in the US, says Blackwell.

From MIT Technology Review

As Floyd cried out for his mother and came to the conclusion that he might die, Blackwell said Chauvin remained unmoved, his sunglasses still “undisturbed” on his head.

From Time

Nimura correctly names medicine as heroic, not the Blackwell sisters.

From Washington Post

But in those days there were very creative people like Chris Blackwell who really did the first boutique hotel.

From The Daily Beast

“I was actually on the phone with their customer service rep and he was very hesitant,” Blackwell said.

From The Daily Beast

The other was former Cincinnati mayor Ken Blackwell, who served as Ohio Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007.

From The Daily Beast

But to Blackwell, Israel is a “paradise,” and he lives an ordinary teenage life.

From The Daily Beast

Ben-Shahar Blackwell does not consider himself a Jew, “I am a Hebrew,” he said.

From The Daily Beast

He must have realized the danger of the speech for which he was later doomed to Blackwell's Island.

From Project Gutenberg

"It would have been a terrible shock to Mrs. Morton if she had been his wife," observed Mr. Blackwell.

From Project Gutenberg

Next day, a lawyer from a Mr. Beaufort—Mr. George Blackwell, a gentlemanlike man called.

From Project Gutenberg

He was not the least alarmed at what Mr. Blackwell proposed, though so shocked at what Lilburne dictated.

From Project Gutenberg

Blackwell would go the next day into Wales—he would find out Mr. Jones—he would sound him!

From Project Gutenberg