Carroll

American

[kar-uhl] / ˈkær əl /

noun

Charles, 1737–1832, American patriot and legislator.
Lewis, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Also Carrol. a male or female given name.

Carroll British

/ ˈkærəl /

noun

Lewis. real name the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. 1832–98, English writer; an Oxford mathematics don who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872) and the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

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Morley was apprehended by Missouri State Highway Patrol "without incident" in Carroll County at 11:34am local time on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Victorian Premier Ben Carroll described the attack as "shocking".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

And to think Pete Carroll was on campus last spring, and available for leadership mentoring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Hart’s “Meeting Ourselves” is woozy and vaguely threatening, with lines like “Don’t be scared / Open the door” bringing to mind a shadowy Lewis Carroll adventure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“I cannot say that any of your cases prove anything,” he wrote back to Carroll.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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