Thorndike
Americannoun
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Ashley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
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Edward Lee, 1874–1949, U.S. psychologist and lexicographer.
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(Everett) Lynn, 1882–1965, U.S. historian and scholar (brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike).
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Dame Sybil, 1882–1976, English actress.
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Edward Lee. 1874–1949, US psychologist, who worked on animals and proposed that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments ( Thorndike's law or law of effect )
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Dame ( Agnes ) Sybil . 1882–1976, British actress
Example Sentences
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His merger partners from Thorndike, Doran, Paine & Lewis were not interested in this direction, and they held significant votes in the combined firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Founded in Philadelphia and chaired by Jack Bogle, who later founded Vanguard, Wellington merged with Boston’s Thorndike, Doran, Paine & Lewis in 1967.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
"We're all about remembrance and education," says David Thorndike, who was a 10-year-old boy when the B-17s collided near Canvey and remembers the immediate aftermath.
From BBC ● May 18, 2024
They also embraced the new field of psychological testing, offering tests that measured aptitude and not achievement, such as the Thorndike Tests for Mental Alertness.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 28, 2023
Do you dunk I complained about picking up old lunches that had fungus growing on them and sweeping asbestos tiles and straightening Thorndike dictionaries?
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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