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  Eccles

  noun

  Sir John Carew 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
• eccles.
  eccles.

  abbreviation

  ecclesiastic.
• Eccles.
  Eccles.

  abbreviation

  Ecclesiastes.

Eccles

¹ American  

[ek-uhlz] / ˈɛk əlz /

noun

1. Sir John Carew 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.

2. Marriner Stoddard 1890–1977, U.S. economist and banker.

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eccles. ² American  

Or eccl.

abbreviation

1. ecclesiastic.

2. ecclesiastical.

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Eccles. ³ American  

Or Eccl.

abbreviation

Bible.

1. Ecclesiastes.

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Eccles ¹ British  

/ ˈɛkəlz /

noun

1. a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 36 610 (2001)

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Eccles ² British  

/ ˈɛkəlz /

noun

1. Sir John Carew. 1903–97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses

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Eccles. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. Ecclesiastes

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For instance, for the Eccles project the Fed attempted to adopt the recommendation to use a type of construction contract that shifts the risk of cost overruns to the contractor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Fed Inspector-General Michael Horowitz on Wednesday released his report into cost overruns on renovations of the Fed’s main Eccles building and an office complex across the street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Research suggests HSD symptoms can worsen, or come to light, after a stressor, Dr Eccles says.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

One of those deaths was Alex Cottam, a 27-year-old software engineer from Eccles described by his mother, Michelle, as "lovely, clever, and popular".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Placed on board of the Northumbrian, it was driven at the rate of thirty-six miles an hour by Stephenson to Eccles.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

Spenser. dim. diminutive. opp. opposed. subj. subjunctive. dub. doubtful. opt. optics. suff. suffix. eccles. ecclesiastical history. orig. originally. superl. superlative. e.g. for example. ornith. ornithology. surg. surgery. elect. electricity.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Fellow taxi driver Stuart Ryan said of Mr Henning, also known as Gadget: "He's the greatest man you'd ever meet. Gadget is the taxi driver of Eccles. Everybody knows him."

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2014

Yesterday came in from Cheltenham 5s.; with Eccles. ix.

From A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part by George Müller

The Holy Spirit everywhere forbids such melancholy, as, for instance, in Eccles. 11.,

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau

Today came in still further for the Orphans, with Eccles. ix.

From A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part by George Müller

Upon these grounds, St. Jerome interprets that speech of the Preacher, Eccles. xi.

From Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell