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Jukes

American  
[jooks] / dʒuks /

noun

  1. the fictitious name of an actual family that was the focus of a 19th-century sociological study of the inheritance of feeble-mindedness and its correlation with social degeneracy.


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"We're operating a criminal justice system which, in order to protect the courtroom, really locks down information about investigations when they're under way," Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes, the UK's head of counter-terrorism policing, told Panorama.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2025

In 2021, the then Chief Constable of South Wales Police Matt Jukes said that members of the Cardiff Five, the men originally accused of the murder, should be recognised as victims.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

It is a “palpably different picture than it was,” says Assistant Commissioner Jukes.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

People can “take a degree of comfort”, says Mr Jukes, that since the attacks in London and Manchester in 2017, “that terrible year”, police have disrupted nearly 40 “terrorist plots”.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

Jukes who, in 1862, first revived the Huttonian doctrine, and showed how completely it explained the drainage-lines in the south of Ireland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

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