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Ellery

American  
[el-uh-ree] / ˈɛl ə ri /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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This septuagenarian prefers the crime novels of such genre masters as Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen and John Dickson Carr.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Ellery “Ellie” Curtis, 26, of San Francisco suffered a head injury and was pronounced dead at the Palisades Tahoe resort in Olympic Valley, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

Co-authors on the study include first author Ellery Vincent as well as Blair Perry and Charles Robbins of WSU and Joanna Kelley of University of California, Santa Cruz.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023

In his determination, Mr Ellery said there would have been signals between 02:00 and 03:15 that Poppy was suffering and displaying symptoms of intermittent compression of her umbilical cord.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2023

The upgrade was the brainchild of the eminent astronomer George Ellery Hale.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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