Clifford
Americannoun
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Clark McAdams 1906–98, U.S. lawyer and government official.
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William Kingdon 1845–79, English mathematician and philosopher.
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a male given name.
Example Sentences
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"The strings just fell out," says Clifford Cheung, professor of theoretical physics and director of the Leinweber Forum for Theoretical Physics at Caltech.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Graduating college is “a massive change in your life — one of the biggest, outside of getting married and having kids,” said Clifford Cornell, a financial adviser at New York-based Bone Fide Wealth.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
Mr. Clifford is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation and author of “The Troublemaker.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
A grand jury indicted Clifford Proctor, 60, in September 2024, after the district attorney’s office reopened an investigation into the shooting death of Brendon Glenn.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026
And so did Hank and Dusty, and so did the city slickers, and so did Clifford Snyder, the tax man.
From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner
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