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Sewell

American  
[soo-uhl] / ˈsu əl /

noun

  1. Anna, 1820–78, English author.


Sewell British  
/ ˈsuːəl /

noun

  1. Henry. 1807–79, New Zealand statesman, born in England: first prime minister of New Zealand (1856)

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“Few of those who came before or after had thought about, or read as much on, the nature of international peace as Dulles had,” Mr. Sewell tells us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Mr. Sewell is first-rate on the development of Dulles’s foreign-policy philosophy and shows him to be a far more subtle thinker than is often understood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

The group is made up of singer Miles Hunt, guitarist Malcolm Treece, violinist Erica Nockalls, guitarist Mark Thwaite, bass player Tim Sewell, and drummer Pete Howard.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Rep. Terri Sewell, a Democrat from Alabama, said calls from constituents with tax-return issues have “increased exponentially.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

In fact, the Meadow River Lumber Company operated the world’s largest sawmill not too far away, along the Meadow River between the Sewell and Simms Mountains, at the western edge of Greenbrier County.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson