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  hawking

  noun

  the sport of hunting with hawks or other birds of prey; falconry.
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  Hawking

  noun

  Stephen William, 1942–2018, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.

hawking

¹ American  

[haw-king] / ˈhɔ kɪŋ /

noun

1. the sport of hunting with hawks or other birds of prey; falconry.

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Hawking ² American  

[haw-king] / ˈhɔ kɪŋ /

noun

1. Stephen William, 1942–2018, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.

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Hawking ¹ British  

/ ˈhɔːkɪŋ /

noun

1. Stephen William. Born 1942, British physicist. Stricken with a progressive nervous disease since the 1960s, he has nevertheless been a leader in cosmological theory. His publications intended for a wide audience include A Brief History of Time (1987) and The Grand Design (2010)

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hawking ² British  

/ ˈhɔːkɪŋ /

noun

1. another name for falconry

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Hawking Scientific  

/ hô′kĭng /

1. British physicist noted for his study of black holes and the origin of the universe, especially the big bang theory. His work has provided much of the mathematical basis for scientific explanations of the physical properties of black holes.

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Etymology

Origin of hawking

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at hawk ¹, -ing ¹

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Even OpenAI knows the future it is hawking is deeply flawed.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Six months on there are "no more, but no less" people out at night, said one young woman hawking sachets of hangover remedy.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

And they raised enormous piles of cash—sometimes in the hundreds of millions of dollars—in a way that made them seem more like tech startups than companies hawking retail consumer goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

Kristi Noem was shown selling handheld vacuums on a home shopping network while Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth were hawking products on their own podcast.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Far, far below he could see a hawking party.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

The idea that gravity and thermodynamics are deeply linked dates back to the pioneering work of Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking in the 1970s.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

Using semi-classical calculations, Hawking showed that black holes are not completely black.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Hawking could intuit the mathematics that describes the fabric of spacetime, but in that earlier book he sometimes forgot that the rest of us could not do the same, and meandered into distracting mathematical discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

In the 1960s Stephen Hawking demonstrated the Big Bang in theory, while Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson had detected the background radiation that proved decisive evidence of the event.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Its searches after Truth, are a sort of Hawking and Hunting, wherein the very pursuit makes a great part of the Pleasure.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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