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Peebles

American  
[pee-buhlz] / ˈpi bəlz /

noun

  1. a historic county in S Scotland.


Peebles British  
/ ˈpiːbəlz /

noun

  1. a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders. Pop: 8065 (2001)

"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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Sora was the brainchild of Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles, two researchers who became close friends while completing doctorate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

Bill Peebles, the head of Sora, said in an X post on Oct.

From Barron's Mar. 25, 2026

When someone asks Brad Peebles what he does for work, he privately debates whether to be specific or keep it simple.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

"I opened up the Daily Mail, it read 'Andy Peebles Goes To Radio 1' - I was down there within 30 minutes!"

From BBC Nov. 28, 2025

Dicke and Peebles argued that we should still be able to see the glow of the early universe, because light from very distant parts of it would only just be reaching us now.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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