Reardon

British  

/ ˈrɪədən /

noun

1. Ray . born 1932, Welsh snooker player: world champion 1970, 1973–76, 1978

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Example Sentences

Aged 46 at the time, he was the oldest world champion in Crucible history, eclipsing Ray Reardon, who won his sixth title aged 45 in 1978.

From BBC

Reardon sees writing from a different aspect:

From The Wall Street Journal

“New Grub Street” is just as crowded as most Victorian novels, and Gissing drew its women—Reardon’s wife, Amy, who loves his work but cannot abide his penury; Milvain’s sister, Dora, a prototype of the emancipated woman that would soon lead to suffragism—with unusual care and insight.

From The Wall Street Journal

His pessimism was fully formed by then: The hero, a gifted young novelist named Edwin Reardon, is crushed by poverty and circumstance, while the glibly ambitious Jasper Milvain goes on to glory—and, in the end, to marry Reardon’s widow.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr Reardon, 29, said he took his photo of the comet by using a telephoto lens and a star tracker, which allows the camera to follow an object as it moves across the sky, in order to collect more light and image data.

From BBC