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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 Johnson, Willis Fletcher

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