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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

One of his targets was Peebles, who received an offer and briefly considered joining the company.

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

However, the lawyer, 43, still managed to finish fast enough that she was driven back home to Peebles by her parents when the other 600 competitors arrived in the early hours of Sunday.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2025

At roughly the same time as Penzias and Wilson were investigating noise in their detector, two American physicists at nearby Princeton University, Bob Dicke and Jim Peebles, were also taking an interest in microwaves.

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

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