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Losey

British  
/ ˈləʊsɪ /

noun

  1. Joseph. 1909–84, US film director, in Britain from 1952. His films include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), and Don Giovanni (1979)

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The harlequin lady beetle is more aggressive than its peers, said John Losey, director of the Lost Ladybug project at Cornell University.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The reputation may have taken a bit of a hit,” Losey said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many of them, Losey said, assume the insects must be a different bug altogether, since “no self-respecting ladybug would come into my house.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Reference points included the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, Joseph Losey’s 1971 film “The Go-Between” and the paintings of Caravaggio.

From Los Angeles Times

The Habitat program targets a persistent problem for people with low and moderate incomes — the difficulty of saving for a down payment, says Clare Losey, an assistant research economist at Texas A&M’s Texas Real Estate Research Center.

From Seattle Times