Updike
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Updike stuck up for himself when faced with the magazine’s intrusively correct fiddling: In 1958 he sent one editor, William Maxwell, an unwavering paragraph against a single word.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Updike appreciated cats, adored Doris Day, was always eager “to do right, and reap the appropriate praise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
It was hailed by John Updike as a "Tiger Woodesian debut" and made her a celebrity at 36.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
Aaron Updike, a metrologist for the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, one of the cities under an enhanced risk, said severe weather would move into the region in the morning and fade away shortly thereafter.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2024
But the main reason people call me White Rabbit is because we had to read this very sad book by John Updike.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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