Roderick
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Brookmans’ holiday home goes from being a pretty cottage to a “ghastly pile” to “the sort of grim, four-square, red-brick Victorian house you could imagine Roderick Usher living in.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
What followed was an unlikely 20-year-long friendship with convicted murderer Roderick Orme, which evolved as the pair exchanged hundreds of letters and emails.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Roderick Wong’s $9 billion firm, RTW Investments, gained about 55% in its main biotech hedge fund, a person familiar with its performance said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026
Roderick Hills Jr., an expert in administrative law at New York University, is not impressed with Duffy’s reasoning.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2025
The issue arose when the Reverend Adam Sedgwick of Cambridge claimed for the Cambrian period a layer of rock that Roderick Murchison believed belonged rightly to the Silurian.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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