Dubois

[ dy-bwah ]

/ düˈbwɑ /

noun

(Ma·rie) Eu·gène (Fran·çois Tho·mas)

[ma-ree œ-zhen frahn-swa taw-mah] /maˈri œˈʒɛn frɑ̃ˈswa tɔˈmɑ/, 1858–1941, Dutch physical anthropologist and anatomist.

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DuBois writes some characters with more juiciness than others.
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Those books might seek to exonerate, but duBois wants to explain.
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DuBois is a noted expert on the intersection of religion and public life.
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DuBois' elitism is the foundation of all his thinking and observation.
David's Book Club: The Souls of Black Folk|David Frum|May 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST

DuBois was a man of many ideas; Washington, of just one: the proverbial contrast of hedgehog and fox.
David's Book Club: The Souls of Black Folk|David Frum|May 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I was in a corner of the lower end, when I saw Dubois enter in a stout coat, with his ordinary bearing.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete|Duc de Saint-Simon
There might have been a regiment of Germans in the trench for all that Dubois and his two comrades could tell.
Fighting in France|Ross Kay
Dubois examined the shore at that point with apparent curiosity.
Spies of the Kaiser|William Le Queux
The Englishman, notwithstanding his recent imprisonment, was in better condition than Dubois.
The Albert Gate Mystery|Louis Tracy
I had no doubt that Dubois concluded they were English, and had therefore no wish to run in among them.
Paddy Finn|W. H. G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for dubois

Dubois

/ (djuːˈbwɑː) /

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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Science definitions for dubois

Dubois

[ dōō-bwä′ ]

(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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