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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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They feature two bronze axe-heads, and clay moulds potentially used to make some of the unique bronze fittings in the nearby Peebles Hoard - which was saved for the nation in 2024.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

Peebles oversaw training of a new video-generation model, and the creation of the Sora consumer app.

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

Most astronomers, according to Curtis Peebles, expected little, particularly as the comet was not a coherent sphere but a string of twenty-one fragments.

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

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