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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

One of the event's organisers, Dan Nixon, said it was good to see Eccles finally win.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Dr Jessica Eccles, a researcher on brain-body interactions and hypermobility, says diagnosis can be a "postcode lottery in terms of where you are and what opportunities are available to you for assessment".

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Former Fed Chair Marriner Eccles stayed on the Fed board for three years after being demoted by President Harry Truman in 1948.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

In Caste we have two specimens of the people—bad and good—in the persons of Eccles and Sam Gerridge.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon

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

Eccles. tom. ii. pp. 1025-37.59.In the Epistles of St. Paul, Euthalius seems to have followed a Syrian writer.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

In the evening a brother gave me 1l.—Yesterday was put into the chapel boxes 10s. with Eccles. ix.

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

Then consider, what a beautiful rectitude and uprightness, what a comely order and subordination would ensue upon this light, and make his will and affections wonderfully good “God made man upright,” Eccles. vii.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

In Eccles. xi: 1, God says, "Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days."

From The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young by Richard Newton

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