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Doyle

American  
[doil] / dɔɪl /

noun

  1. Sir Arthur Conan 1859–1930, British physician, novelist, and detective-story writer.


Doyle British  
/ dɔɪl /

noun

  1. See Conan Doyle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“It took them a whole lot of energy and effort to sift through all these things to find this needle in the haystack,” said Doyle, a longtime immigration attorney.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

“Wage growth is becoming more targeted, more deliberate and more closely connected to skills and productivity than to overall labor-market tightness,” Doyle said.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

Our Rescue provided resources to help pay for software to search suspects’ computers and cellphones, according to Liam Doyle, supervising investigator with the district attorney’s office.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

“If I make a gift as a QCD, and the charity gives me tickets to the Super Bowl, I can’t take the QCD at all because I got a benefit,” Doyle says.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

British author Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, called it “the most terrible August in the history of the world.”

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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