Burroughs

[bur-ohz, buhr-]

noun

1. Edgar Rice, 1875–1950, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

2. John, 1837–1921, U.S. naturalist and essayist.

3. William Seward, 1855–98, U.S. inventor of the adding machine.

4. his grandson William S(eward), 1914–1997, U.S. novelist.

Burroughs

/ ˈbʌrəʊz /

noun

1. Edgar Rice . 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories

2. William S ( eward ). 1914–97, US novelist, noted for his experimental works exploring themes of drug addiction, violence, and homosexuality. His novels include Junkie (1953), The Naked Lunch (1959), and Interzone (1989)

Example Sentences

She meets William Burroughs, performs a reading with Allen Ginsberg.

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District Judge Allison Burroughs of Massachusetts agreed External link with Harvard that the government’s cuts to the university’s $2.2 billion in federal research funding was unconstitutional.

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Burroughs ruled that the protection of free speech must be weighed against the “fight against antisemitism…and neither goal should nor needs to be sacrificed on the altar of the other.”

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Boston-based Judge Burroughs wrote in Wednesday's ruling: "The Court vacates and sets aside the Freeze Orders and Termination Letters as violative of the First Amendment."

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“These latest attempts to sanitize and reshape history to fit a narrow ideological narrative amount to nothing less than the erasure of history,” said JANM’s President and Chief Executive Ann Burroughs.

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