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Spruance

American  
[sproo-uhns] / ˈspru əns /

noun

  1. Raymond Ames 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.


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The Touska was sailing to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas when it was warned repeatedly over a six hours by the USS Spruance, a guided-missile destroyer, that it was violating the blockade, U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

About 2,200 people work at the Spruance plant, including about 1,800 DuPont employees and several hundred contractors.

From Washington Times Mar. 21, 2020

Kingsley The chef Roxanne Spruance, who was at Blue Hill and Alison Eighteen, will pursue French-American cuisine at her own place, a couple of years in the making.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2015

Talking to Trey Spruance, the mad scientist behind Secret Chiefs 3, is a total mind trip.

From Seattle Times Feb. 2, 2012

At the last minute, Admiral Spruance decided to send the Twenty-seventh Army Division, the soldiers who were supposed to be our backups, to help take Saipan.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

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