Butterfield
Britishnoun
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In New York City, where the cakes are sold on select days in the Upper East Side’s Butterfield Market, people continue to show up in droves, lining up hours before the cakes are even stocked.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
Butterfield & Son for $1 billion in cash and 52.1 million Butterfield shares, currently valued at $645 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Jaeden Martell and Asa Butterfield play two very different adolescents in Oscar Boyson’s timely, cynical and incisive feature debut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Alexander Butterfield, the former White House aide who revealed the existence of damaging recordings related to the break-in at the Watergate hotel in Washington DC, died aged 99 on Monday, according to his wife.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
It is this sort of revolution, a revolution of unintended consequences and unforeseen outcomes, that Butterfield intended to evoke by the term ‘the Scientific Revolution’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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