Waal
Americannoun
noun
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Despite believing she could write a novel in a matter of months, de Waal said it took more than a decade of rejection and learning the craft before she was published.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
On the banks of the Waal, the Dutch branch of the Rhine, swimmers are sunning themselves on a Nijmegen beach that didn't exist before the river level dropped a few months ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
When Mr. de Waal, a British ceramicist, inherited 264 of these netsuke from a relative in the 1990s, he became fascinated by their artistry—and their provenance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
To test what was going on in these interactions, Waal compared how body language changed between pairs of chimpanzees who had recently fought and others who had not.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
"Waal, I ruther guess all the rest of us was reddy enough ter agree to it," put in Gallup.
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish
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