Blake
Americannoun
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Hector Toe, 1912–1995, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
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James Hubert Eubie, 1883–1983, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
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Robert, 1599–1657, British admiral.
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William, 1757–1827, English poet, engraver, and painter.
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a first name.
noun
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Sir Peter . born 1932, British painter, a leading exponent of pop art in the 1960s: co-founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1969)
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Sir Quentin ( Saxby ). born 1932, British artist, illustrator, and children's writer; noted esp for his illustrations to books by Roald Dahl
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Robert . 1599–1657, English admiral, who commanded Cromwell's fleet against the Royalists, the Dutch, and the Spanish
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William . 1757–1827, English poet, painter, engraver, and mystic. His literary works include Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), and Jerusalem (1820). His chief works in the visual arts include engravings of a visionary nature, such as the illustrations for The Book of Job (1826), for Dante's poems, and for his own Prophetic Books (1783–1804)
Example Sentences
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On a Super Bowl-favorite team that includes Kyren Williams, Blake Corum and Ronnie Rivers, who is also a special teams ace, Hunter was not going to play unless there were a series of injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
His comments came ahead of the appointment of Baroness Blake of Leeds as fire minister.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Investors might demand a higher yield to “account for this extra unpredictability,” said Blake Gwinn, head of U.S. rates strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The process is to be led by Dr Martin Blake, a former Chief Veterinary Officer for Ireland and is expected to report by early autumn.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
But the Cold War created new and unfamiliar battlefields, for both Blake and millions of other soldiers and citizens around the world.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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