Lloyd
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Welsh Legend. Llwyd.
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Harold (Clayton) 1894–1971, U.S. actor.
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(John) Selwyn (Brooke) 1904–78, British statesman.
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a male given name: from a Welsh word meaning “gray.”
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Clive ( Hubert ). born 1944, West Indian (Guyanese) cricketer; played in 110 tests (1966–84), scoring 7,515 runs; captained the West Indies in 74 tests and to two World Cup wins (1975, 1979)
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Harold ( Clayton ). 1893–1971, US comic film actor
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Marie, real name Matilda Alice Victoria Wood. 1870–1922, English music-hall entertainer
Example Sentences
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Toronto-based architect and author Lloyd Alter has been sounding the alarm for years about the part of the house he calls the “killer bathroom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Five British players - Neal Skupski, Henry Patten, Julian Cash, Lloyd Glasspool and Joe Salisbury - are ranked inside the world's top 15, and all have won Grand Slam titles over the past six seasons.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
“If he were an animal, he’d be a Cheshire cat with this big grin ear to ear,” said Lloyd Greif, chief executive of the Los Angeles investment bank Greif & Co.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Lloyd Blankfein, the former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, says trading stocks is for him like what music is to most people.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
The evening before school took up, me and Dad and Lloyd and J.W. rode down to the schoolhouse in the wagon with the long ladder from the barn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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