Deakin
Americannoun
noun
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When assessing information from health and wellness influencers, look for their qualifications, says Emily Denniss, a public-health nutritionist and lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, who studies how food and nutrition are discussed online.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
This past weekend, bandmates Paul Deakin, Eddie Perez and Jerry Dale McFadden performed with a cast of friends and admirers at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to mark the Mavericks’ 35th anniversary.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
Mylene Mariette, a behavioral ecologist at Deakin University, and her team set out to answer that question with zebra finches held in an aviary on campus in Melbourne, Australia.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024
John Deakin, head of trees and woodlands at the National Trust, said: "Temperate rainforests used to be expansive wooded habitats along the western seaboard of the UK, but now all that's left are fragments."
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024
Well, we don’t call it smuggled in the trade, Deakin.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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