Gorey
Americannoun
noun
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The BBC also spoke to 47-year-old Debbie Krupski, who described Gorey "as the most wonderful place", but said she was worried about the affordability of housing.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
They all may as well have sprung from the combined neo-gothic conjurings of Edward Gorey and Harold Pinter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
“I must have looked like an Edward Gorey cartoon standing there in the West Village in my party dress,” the author writes, “holding a present, lost.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
"For now the perceived tightness in oil supply is lending resilience to oil prices," said Commonwealth Bank commodities analyst Tobin Gorey.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2022
Mam is gone when I wake but there’s movement in the room and it’s the priest, Father Gorey, from the Confraternity saying Mass at a table in the corner.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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