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Jukes

American

[jooks] / dʒuks /

noun

the fictitious name of an actual family that was the focus of a 19th-century sociological study of the inheritance of feeble-mindedness and its correlation with social degeneracy.

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But Jukes insisted that failing officers will not get away with just being sacked.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

In 2021, the then Chief Constable of South Wales Police Matt Jukes said that members of the Cardiff Five, the men originally accused of the murder, should be recognised as victims.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

The UK’s head of counter-terror policing, Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes, told me for the BBC’s Newscast that “X was an enormous driver” of posts that contributed to the summer’s disorder.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

Harder to tackle are those posts that fall into what Mr Jukes calls the “lawful but awful” category.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

Mary and I had seen enough of the Morrowbie Jukes pits.

From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)

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