Charles
Americannoun
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Jacques Alexandre César 1746–1823, French physicist and inventor.
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Ray Ray Charles Robinson, 1930–2004, U.S. blues singer and pianist.
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Cape, a cape in E Virginia, N of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay.
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a river in E Massachusetts, flowing between Boston and Cambridge into the Atlantic. 47 miles (75 km) long.
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a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “man.”
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Prince of Wales. born 1948, son of Elizabeth II; heir apparent to the throne of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He married (1981) Lady Diana Spencer; they separated in 1992 and were divorced in 1996; their son, Prince William of Wales, was born in 1982 and their second son, Prince Henry, in 1984; married (2005) Camilla Parker Bowles
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Ray real name Ray Charles Robinson. 1930–2004, US singer, pianist, and songwriter, whose work spans jazz, blues, gospel, pop, and country music
Example Sentences
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The series is executive produced by 50 Cent and the cast includes Howard Charles and Nicholas Pinnock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Los Angeles police officers responded to the bridge at about 8 a.m. after the man was spotted climbing the bridge, said Officer Charles Miller with the Los Angeles Police Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
King Charles said a key theme of the relay had been raising awareness of plastic pollution and the damage it causes to marine life.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
His newest film, the horror-fantasy hybrid “Her Private Hell,” starring Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, opens this weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Charles Kalme, a Latvian-born sixteen-year-old, was a handsome and polite boy who’d spent years in a displaced persons’ camp and was the reigning U.S.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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