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Sears

American  
[seerz] / sɪərz /

noun

  1. Richard Warren, 1863–1914, U.S. mail-order retailer.


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"Cancer therapies often depend on overwhelming tumor cells with DNA damage," Sears said.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

One of them is Oliver Sears, who has been in the country about 40 years and is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Mail-order catalogs such as the midcentury Sears, Roebuck Christmas edition overflowed with evocative shades—winterberry, burnished beige, rico green—meant to conjure a feeling as much as a hue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He married Catherine Sears in 1967, shortly before finishing his dissertation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

They carried him to a cabin where he was strapped to a yellow Barca- Lounger which they had stolen from a Sears Roebuck warehouse.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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