Hobbes
Americannoun
noun
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"It's like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon."
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Many translators have approached Thucydides since Thomas Hobbes made the first direct translation into English in 1628.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
In the first ‘Sex and the City’ movie, released in 2008, Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda Hobbes exasperatedly acknowledges the trend: “That’s it?!” she says, aghast as the costume options in a store.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
And this book has been compared to “Catcher in the Rye,” “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” Calvin and Hobbes.
From Salon • May 22, 2024
So where did the three friends Hobbes, Digby and Charleton get the idea of the fact from?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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