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Butterfield

British

/ ˈbʌtəˌfiːld /

noun

William . 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)

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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

Butterfield resigned from the FAA in 1975 and later worked in the private business sector in California.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

Great Britain's joyless start to the Winter Paralympics continued as wheelchair curlers Jo Butterfield and Jason Kean let slip their grasp on the mixed doubles semi-finals and missed out on qualifying.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 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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