Frayn
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Prof Keith Frayn, author of A Calorie is a Calorie, agrees many overweight people would probably not have been so, 40 years ago.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
Act Three, which brings a performance of “Nothing On” to utter collapse, doesn’t quite reach the lunatic heights that Frayn intends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
“We know that someone could weigh 200 pounds and be perfectly healthy, and someone could weigh that same amount and be struggling with diabetes, heart disease,” Frayn said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
My husband, Michael Frayn, is finishing a book and I hope to read the typescript of that next.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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