Du Bois [ doo bois ] SHOW IPA
/ du ˈbɔɪs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
William Edward Burg·hardt [burg -hahrd], /ˈbɜrg hɑrd/, U.S. educator and writer.
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Dubois
[ dy -bwah ] SHOW IPA
/ düˈbwɑ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
(Ma·rie) Eu·gène (Fran·çois Tho·mas) [ma -r eeœ -zhen fr ahn -swa taw-mah ], /maˈri œˈʒɛn frɑ̃ˈswa tɔˈmɑ/, Dutch physical anthropologist and anatomist. Dictionary.com Unabridged
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How to use Du Bois in a sentence Dubois estimated it once held a brain that was about twice as big as an ape’s and approaching the size of a human’s.
Today’s fast-food workers, hotel chambermaids and nursing-home employees are not enslaved, but as both Lincoln and Du Bois would have understood, they perform labor under a system that has become increasingly unfair and unfree.
The thick skullcap had heavy brow ridges, but Dubois estimated it once held a brain that was about twice as big as an ape’s and approaching the size of a human’s.
In just that line, Du Bois provides a snapshot of what life used to be like before the Fifth Avenue restaurant was abandoned.
Legions of people already accept some version of McGhee’s diagnosis, beginning with other readers of Du Bois .
The fear that Pascal might weather the storm has Du Vernay, Oprah Winfrey, and other Hollywood elites pulling their punches.
Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph Cirque du Soleil.
When Vial got that first assignment, she was just beginning her photography career, and Cirque du Soleil was only a few years old.
The pride and admiration Vial has for the artists who put on Cirque du Soleil is evident.
Cirque du Soleil obviously sprang to startling success with a variety of shows since its 1987 founding.
They are unique; that lady there is the Du Barry—a portrait worth, alone, six thousand francs.
Estimez un peu que c'est du reste du symbole et fondemens chrestiens.
L'Occision des chiens est accoste de la tabagie et de ce qui suyt la tabagie, du chant et des danses.
Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.
Voyez l'efficace du sacrement: le lendemain matin, il mande M. de Biancourt et moy, et de nouveau il recommence sa harangue.
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British Dictionary definitions for Du Bois
noun
W (illiam ) E (dward ) B (urghardt ). 1868–1963, US Black sociologist, writer, and political activist; a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Scientific definitions for Du Bois
Dubois
(Marie) Eugène (François Thomas) 1858-1940
Dutch paleontologist who in 1891 discovered in Java a fossil hominid which he believed to be the so-called missing link between the apes and humans on the evolutionary ladder. He named it Pithecanthropus erectus , but it is now known as Homo erectus.
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