Macleod
Americannoun
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Fiona. Sharp, William.
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John James Rickard 1876–1935, Scottish physiologist: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize in medicine 1923.
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Example Sentences
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Cal Macleod is a 22-year-old island native who graduated from a textile-engineering school in Edinburgh—his gifts on the loom earned him a scholarship—and has been guilt-tripped by his father, John, into returning home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
"I enjoy... the physical battle, the confrontation," said Macleod on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
John-Calum Macleod, or “Cal,” has returned to the cramped, emotionally suffocating family home he left behind, now shared with his father and maternal grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
The meeting of the TV tribes had to happen on neutral territory, and Macleod says he got the idea for the storyline from his own journeys back and forth between Manchester and Leeds.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
A large congregation had assembled in one of the billiard halls in Macleod on that Sunday morning to hear the "Gospel cowboy" preach.
From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by Maclean, John
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