Davies

American  

[dey-veez] / ˈdeɪ viz /

noun

1. Arthur Bowen 1862–1928, U.S. painter.

2. Joseph Edward, 1876–1958, U.S. lawyer and diplomat.

3. Peter Maxwell, 1934–2016, English composer.

4. (William) Robertson, 1913–1995, Canadian novelist, playwright, and essayist.

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Davies British  

/ ˈdeɪvɪs /

noun

1. Sir John. 1569–1626, English poet, author of Orchestra or a Poem of Dancing (1596) and the philosophical poem Nosce Teipsum (1599)

2. Sir Peter Maxwell. born 1934, British composer whose works include the operas Taverner (1967), The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1977), and Resurrection (1988), nine symphonies, and the ten Strathclyde Concertos; Master of the Queen's Music from 2004

3. ( William ) Robertson. 1913–95, Canadian novelist and dramatist. His novels include Leaven of Malice (1954), Fifth Business (1970), The Rebel Angels (1981), What's Bred in the Bone (1985), and The Cunning Man (1994)

4. W ( illiam ) H ( enry ). 1871–1940, Welsh poet, noted also for his Autobiography of a Super-tramp (1908)

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"If burnout experiences are unaddressed it may lead to those conditions developing," said Davies.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

“That rate risk was real and actually, whoever played that game won, because rates did stay flat,” said Alan Kufeld, a partner at advisory firm PKF O’Connor Davies in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Isaiah Davies, an undergraduate at Stanford University and visiting summer researcher at the University of Utah in 2023, was the lead author.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sion Emlyn Davies, a naturalist and wildlife videographer, had been helping to keep an eye on the nest.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Matters in physics have now reached such a pitch that, as Paul Davies noted in Nature, it is "almost impossible for the non-scientist to discriminate between the legitimately weird and the outright crackpot."

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