Gaskell
Americannoun
noun
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Meanwhile, Gaskell said that, like gambling, prize draws and competitions "exploit the reward pathway in the brain".
From BBC • May 13, 2026
It pushed her season score to 280 points to clinch the first slopestyle Crystal Globe of her career, by 69 points from Canada's Elena Gaskell.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
"The catch phrase is always 'physics beyond the Standard Model,'" Gaskell said.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024
Because Gaskell died in 1866 before finishing the book, Roger and his sweetheart, Molly, were not yet together.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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