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Haynes

American  
[heynz] / heɪnz /

noun

  1. Elwood 1857–1925, U.S. inventor.


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Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Haynes Foundation and author of “Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles,” said sweeping generational changes are happening in L.A. politics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

The defence, led by British barrister Peter Haynes after a reshuffle, had urged judges not to set a date for trial, arguing that Duterte's health needed to be assessed.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

The site's veteran reporter Jane Haynes has covered the city's politics for decades and said this election was like no other.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Ms. Haynes brings back the poetry of time, reintroducing terms such as “gloaming” and “dimpse,” which mean the dimness of twilight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

In a crisply argued paper in Science in 1964, Haynes drew attention to the correlation between the birth of “an ice-free, trans-Canadian corridor” and the “abrupt appearance of Clovis artifacts some 700 years later.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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