Griffith
Americannoun
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Arthur, 1872–1922, Irish nationalist leader: a founder of Sinn Fein.
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D(avid Lewelyn) W(ark) 1875–1948, U.S. film director and producer.
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a town in NW Indiana.
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a male given name, form of Griffin.
noun
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Arthur. 1872–1922, Irish journalist and nationalist: founder of Sinn Féin (1905); president of the Free State assembly (1922)
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D ( avid Lewelyn ) W ( ark ). 1875–1948, US film director and producer. He introduced several cinematic techniques, including the flashback and the fade-out, in his masterpiece The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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One vendor sold t-shirts with captions proclaiming “LEGEND” alternatively accompanying pictures of Charlie Kirk or, for some reason, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts together in costume from The Andy Griffith Show.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
The large-scale analysis was conducted by researchers from the University of Eastern Finland, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, and Griffith University in Australia.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026
In a written order, Griffith said that Williams “has better credibility than Boyd,” but that his testimony about the shooting itself was “not credible” because it mirrored Boyd’s account.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The Griffith Observatory is hosting an online broadcast of the total lunar eclipse on Tuesday from 12:37 a.m. to 6:25 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
Had Griffith publicized this startling result, he would have set all of biology ablaze.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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