Hicks
Americannoun
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Edward, 1780–1849, U.S. painter.
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Granville, 1902–82, U.S. writer, educator, and editor.
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Sir John Richard, 1904–1989, British economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
Example Sentences
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Steve Hicks said he was a Trump supporter but not a diehard.
From Slate • May 19, 2026
Michael David Hicks, a physicist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab who specialized in comets and asteroids, died in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
Michael David Hicks, who studied comets and asteroids at JPL, was the first of the scientists who disappeared or died.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
The cost, Hicks said, was about £8 per pupil, amounting to £1,700 for the year group.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
“Mighty glad tuh have yuh. Hicks is the name. Guv’nor Amos Hicks from Buford, South Carolina. Free, single, disengaged.”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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