Hopkins
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Anthony, born 1937, English actor, born in Wales.
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Sir Frederick Gowland 1861–1947, English physician and biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929.
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Gerard Manley 1844–89, English poet.
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Harry Lloyd, 1890–1946, U.S. government administrator and social worker.
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Johns, 1795–1873, U.S. financier and philanthropist.
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Mark, 1802–87, U.S. clergyman and educator.
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a city in SE Minnesota.
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Sir Anthony. born 1937, Welsh actor: his films include Bounty (1984), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Shadowlands (1994), Nixon (1995), and Hannibal (2001)
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Sir Frederick Gowland (ˈɡaʊlənd). 1861–1947, British biochemist, who pioneered research into what came to be called vitamins: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1929)
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Gerard Manley. 1844–89, British poet and Jesuit priest, who experimented with sprung rhythm in his highly original poetry
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Harry L ( loyd ). 1890–1946, US administrator. During World War II he was a personal aide to President Roosevelt and administered the lend-lease programme
Example Sentences
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To determine whether those findings apply more broadly, researchers from USC worked with colleagues at Brown University and Johns Hopkins University to examine data from both high income and low and middle income countries.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Mr. Mandelbaum, a professor emeritus of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins, writes that the U.S. “has its own political personality,” one that has shaped its foreign policy over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Sir Anthony Hopkins will release his first album next month featuring a collection of classical pieces he has worked on for six decades.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
In the late 1990s, Maura Gillison, a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University who was then in her early 30s and little known in the field, sought to resolve the debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
By 1951, when Henrietta arrived at Hopkins, TeLinde had developed a theory about cervical cancer that, if correct, could save the lives of millions of women.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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