Frayn
Britishnoun
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Prof Keith Frayn, author of A Calorie is a Calorie, agrees many overweight people would probably not have been so, 40 years ago.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026
“Your weight is like your heartbeat, in the sense that you might have a resting heartbeat, like 65 beats a minute,” Frayn said.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022
He went to work on “Face Value,” a comedy of mistaken racial anxiety that modeled on the farces of Michael Frayn and Joe Orton.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2020
Berg’s spying activities bring us authors Thomas Powers and David Ignatius as well as playwright Michael Frayn, whose “Copenhagen” covers related territory.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2019
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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