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McPhee

American  
[muhk-fee] / məkˈfi /

noun

  1. John Angus, born 1931, U.S. writer.


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Daryl McPhee, a shark expert at Queensland's Bond University, said fatal shark attacks are rare in north Queensland.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

McPhee marveled: “The industry is self-regulating and pays its own way.”

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Near the book’s end, Mr. McPhee pleads for the federal government to tighten regulations on the market for human bodies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

McPhee also shared a link on her Instagram story to a fundraiser for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

And in Basin and Range, published in 1980, John McPhee noted that even then one American geologist in eight still didn’t believe in plate tectonics.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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