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Mahy

British  
/ ˈmɑːhɪ /

noun

  1. Margaret . 1936–2012. New Zealand writer for children. Her books include A Lion in the Meadow (1969), The Changeover (1984), and Alchemy (2002)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Another psychiatrist in the 1970s, Dr George Mahy in Barbados, reviewed the cases of about 200 patients with psychiatric illnesses originally from the Caribbean.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023

The piece casts intriguing shadows, as do Cindy Winnick’s soft sculpture of a dancer with oversize feet and Mahy Polymeropoulos’s “Sea Urchin,” which reduces the creature to a nest of blue wires.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

Farther along the Avon is another much-loved public space, the Margaret Mahy Playground.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2021

Written by Stuart McKenzie; based on a novel by Margaret Mahy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2019

Cagigal was succeeded in 1821 by Nicholas Mahy, an old man, of a distrustful and arbitrary disposition, who was entirely out of sympathy with the liberal movement in Cuba.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

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