Clough
Americannoun
noun
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Arthur Hugh. 1819–61, British poet, author of Amours de Voyage (1858) and Dipsychus (1865)
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Brian. 1935–2004, English footballer and manager
noun
Etymology
Origin of clough
Old English clōh
Example Sentences
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Clough added, "As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, we're searching for the needle in the haystack, but there really shouldn't be a needle to begin with."
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
Despite this challenge, Clough and McNeil, working with graduate student Eduardo Ochoa Rivera and statistics professor Ambuj Tewari, developed methods to separate true microplastics from glove-related contamination.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
But extending their first European campaign since 1995-96 would be a notable feat for a club starved off continental success since the Brian Clough era.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Would there have been the infamous 44 days of Brian Clough and the Damned United?
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
There may have been some intellectual and moral coxcombry developed in early years by many of Arnold’s pupils; but that is not the mature characteristic of men like Clough and Stanley and Dean Vaughan.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
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