Selden
Americannoun
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George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
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John, 1584–1654, English historian, Orientalist, and politician.
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a city on N Long Island, in SE New York.
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Example Sentences
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Benjamin Royer is an Angeleno who will graduate in May with a master’s degree in specialized journalism from USC, where he received the Selden Ring Investigative Journalism Fellowship.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025
"Douglassarachne acanthopoda comes from the famous Mazon Creek locality in Illinois and is about 308 million years old," said lead author Selden.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2024
“What you typically expect in a wildfire is that you’re going to have a range, and there are going to be some that are quite straightforward and some that are more challenging,” Selden said.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2023
South Yorkshire Police said a motorcycle and a VW Golf collided near the McLaren Composites Technology Centre on Selden Way in Rotherham at about 20:30 GMT on Saturday.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2023
The election officials knew Henry Selden, a retired New York judge and Anthony’s ally in the abolition movement, by reputation, and they didn’t know what to do.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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