Clancy

[klan-see]

noun

1. Tom, 1947–2013, U.S. novelist.

Clancy

/ ˈklænsɪ /

noun

1. Tom. born 1947, US novelist; his thrillers, many of which have been filmed, include The Hunt for Red October (1984), Clear and Present Danger (1989), Debt of Honour (1994) and Red Rabbit (2002)

Example Sentences

His personal assistant Joan Clancy confirmed that he died on Sunday from congestive heart failure in Kingston Hospital, New York state.

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Or to be enjoyed by “viewers” too busy scrolling, texting, shopping, playing Roblox and Fortnite, and blowing targets to kingdom come on “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.”

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"What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic," Rutte said in a speech in Slovenia, saying the "broken" vessel was "limping" home.

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Perhaps the quintessentially mendacious treatment of the subsidy issue came from Dean Clancy of Americans for Prosperity, a Koch-funded right-wing think tank.

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In a screed published in the Hill on Sept. 18 advocating the subsidies’ expiration, Clancy attacked what he labeled “Biden’s health insurance handouts” as benefiting “even millionaires.”

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