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  • Carr
    Carr
    noun
    John Dickson, 1906–77, U.S. mystery writer.
  • carr
    carr
    noun
    an area of bog or fen in which scrub, esp willow, has become established

Carr

American  
[kahr] / kɑr /

noun

  1. John Dickson, 1906–77, U.S. mystery writer.


carr British  
/ kɑː /

noun

  1. an area of bog or fen in which scrub, esp willow, has become established

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of carr

C15: from Old Norse

Example Sentences

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Death is not the only source of lasting pain, of course: Ms. Carr writes with touching power of the divorce-related family separations of her own girlhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a statement Thursday that Disney filed its applications to renew its broadcast licenses only after the company was told its previous answers were “disingenuous, deficient and improper.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

“I’m going to keep doing my job … whatever activist groups like this think notwithstanding,” Carr said.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Carr famously argued in his book “What is History?”

From Salon • May 14, 2026

In cosmology, as the journalist Geoffrey Carr has suggested, we have "a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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