Lankester
Americannoun
noun
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Tony Lankester, who replaced Shona McCarthy as chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society in March, encouraged attendees to follow its theme of "dare to discover" this year.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025
Lankester, who also serves as a director of Rabies Free Africa, said the app's effectiveness could be improved with better technology -- like newer smartphones with high-quality cameras -- and additional operator training.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
Palaeobiologist Michael Boulter paints a group picture of biologists energized by Darwinism, including Ray Lankester and Marie Stopes, rubbing shoulders with cross-disciplinary intellects such as Roger Fry and H. G. Wells.
From Nature ● Sep. 5, 2017
The saintly aura and famous entrance into the MacNeil house by Father Lankester Merrin perhaps put his assistant into the shade.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2014
Lankester, “Mobility of the Spermatozoa of Limulus,” Quart.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
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