Fuchs

[ fyooks ]

/ fyuks /

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noun

Daniel, 1909–1993, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Klaus Emil Julius

[klous], /klaʊs/, 1911–88, British physicist and atom spy for the Soviet Union, born in Germany.

Sir Vivian (Ernest), 1908–1999, British geologist and Antarctic explorer.

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Words nearby Fuchs

fuage, fub, fubar, fubsy, Fu-chou, Fuchs, fuchsia, fuchsin, fuchsite, Fuchu, fucivorous

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How to use Fuchs in a sentence

Fuchs assigned Roullier presnap calls even though he played left guard, not center.
Chase Roullier, snap after snap, cements himself as an anchor of Washington’s offense|Sam Fortier|October 29, 2021|Washington Post
Fuchs distilled blocking to five components — stance, hand placement, wide base, butt down, head placement — and saw Roullier’s advanced mental acuity, how he could see the edge or spot defenders betraying the scheme.
Chase Roullier, snap after snap, cements himself as an anchor of Washington’s offense|Sam Fortier|October 29, 2021|Washington Post
Fuchs’s transfer of scientific secrets to the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1943 was one of the most concentrated spy hauls in history, a step-by-step guide to the fast-moving development of the atomic weapon.
The Mom Who Stole the Blueprints for the Atomic Bomb (The Freakonomics Radio Book Club Ep. 11)|Sarah Lyall|September 25, 2021|Freakonomics
So Fuchs and colleagues created computer simulations of the experiment.
Physicists caught protons ‘surfing’ on shock waves|Emily Conover|August 26, 2021|Science News

“You have a handful of candidates who are saying you can’t trust it,” Fuchs said, “so you’re seeing a response from those who intended to vote absentee and are now going to vote in person.”
Millions of mail ballots have not been returned as window closes for Postal Service delivery|Derek Hawkins, Jacob Bogage|October 28, 2020|Washington Post
The next and last speaker was the class valedictorian, Officer James Fuchs.
Cop Families Boo De Blasio at NYPD Graduation|Michael Daly|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Take Randi Fuchs, a 22-year-old English major who was accepted to her first-choice college and enrolled there in 2006.
College: When Second Choice Is Best|Sushma Subramanian|May 2, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The fuchsia took its name from Leonard Fuchs, a sixteenth-century botanist, the first German who really studied botany.
Stories That Words Tell Us|Elizabeth O'Neill
He talked of Kaulbach, whom he has known very intimately, being the publisher of the "Reineke Fuchs."
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3)|George Eliot
Kaulbach's great compositions are huge charades; and I have seen nothing of his equal to his own "Reineke Fuchs."
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3)|George Eliot
Fuchs; the ultimate origin is unknown, but a connexion has been suggested with Sanskrit puccha, tail.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7|Various
Bald trifft er denn auch seinen Compadre, der soeben ein Tatu ausgegraben und mit seinem Fuchs erschlagen hat.
The German Element in Brazil|Benjamin Franklin Schappelle

British Dictionary definitions for Fuchs

Fuchs

/ (fʊks, fuːks) /

noun

Klaus Emil . (klaus ˈeːmiːl). 1911–88, East German physicist. He was born in Germany, became a British citizen (1942), and was imprisoned (1950–59) for giving secret atomic research information to the Soviet Union

Sir Vivian Ernest . 1908–99, English explorer and geologist: led the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–58)

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