Huggins

[ huhg-inz ]

/ ˈhʌg ɪnz /

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noun

Charles Bren·ton

[bren-tn], /ˈbrɛn tn/, 1901–97, U.S. surgeon and medical researcher, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1966.

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Words nearby Huggins

hugely, hugeous, huggable, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, Huggins, huggy, Hugh, Hugh Capet, Hughes, Hughes, Langston

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How to use Huggins in a sentence

Huggins reached 14 straight NCAA Tournaments at Cincinnati, and even while his defenses ranked in the top 50 every year from the 1997-98 through 2004-05 seasons, they never ranked in the top 60 in forcing turnovers.
Bob Huggins And West Virginia Have Reinvented Themselves … Again|Jake Lourim|March 2, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
A Huggins-coached team missed two straight NCAA Tournaments for the first time since 1991, going 13-19 and then 17-16.
Bob Huggins And West Virginia Have Reinvented Themselves … Again|Jake Lourim|March 2, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Huggins’s completion of not one but two systematic makeovers essentially puts him in a league of his own, as most of his contemporaries have spent decades adhering to one identity.
Bob Huggins And West Virginia Have Reinvented Themselves … Again|Jake Lourim|March 2, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
PG&E alleges that Huggins was aware of Kooista’s actions and did not disclose them.
Lawsuit Reveals New Allegations Against PG&E Contractor Accused of Fraud|by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation|February 26, 2021|ProPublica

The complaint alleges that Huggins and Kooistra approved the overbilled work in exchange for kickbacks.
Lawsuit Reveals New Allegations Against PG&E Contractor Accused of Fraud|by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation|February 26, 2021|ProPublica
To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins?
The Stacks: The Day Lou Gehrig Delivered Baseball’s Gettysburg Address|Ray Robinson|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Samuel Huggins, however, who is licensed to sell tobacco and snuff at Hawkhurst, was the friend in need.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893|Various
Added to this, they came and asked Mr. Huggins to grind corn for them on our little ox-power mill, which he refused to do.
Mary and I|Stephen Return Riggs
The women also undertook, under the instruction of Mrs. Huggins and Miss Fanny, to spin and knit and weave.
Mary and I|Stephen Return Riggs
Mr. Huggins also, about the same time, left the mission work, and made a home in the same neighborhood.
Mary and I|Stephen Return Riggs
But Mrs. Huggins was timid, and preferred rather that her Dakota protector should decide which was the best way.
Mary and I|Stephen Return Riggs

British Dictionary definitions for Huggins

Huggins

/ (ˈhʌɡɪnz) /

noun

Sir William. 1824–1910, British astronomer. He pioneered the use of spectroscopy in astronomy and discovered the red shift in the lines of a stellar spectrum

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Medical definitions for Huggins

Huggins

[ hŭg′ĭnz ]

Charles Brenton 1901-1997

Canadian-born American surgeon. He shared a 1966 Nobel Prize for research in hormone treatment for cancer of the prostate.