Geoffrey
Americannoun
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Geoffrey McQuilkin, executive director of the nonprofit Mono Lake Committee, urged the state water board to act, saying in three decades DWP “has shown that it will not restore this national treasure voluntarily.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
While still publicly backing each other, McCullum suggested England did not stick to their method, while Stokes batted like Geoffrey Boycott and said teams had worked out how to play against them.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
“He made cooking fun. So kids started watching him,” recalls Geoffrey Drummond, who has produced cooking shows since the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
As for Geoffrey Hinton, he barely admits he was wrong about radiologists.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
As the linguist Geoffrey Pullum has noted, there is nothing wrong with a news report that uses the passive voice to say, “Helicopters were flown in to put out the fires.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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