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Waddington

American  
[wod-ing-tuhn] / ˈwɒd ɪŋ tən /

noun

  1. Mount, a mountain in SW British Columbia, Canada: highest peak of the Coast Mountains. 13,104 feet (3,994 meters).


Waddington British  
/ ˈwɒdɪŋtən /

noun

  1. C ( onrad ) H ( all ). 1905–75, British embryologist and geneticist: author of Principles of Embryology (1956) and The Ethical Animal (1960)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The planes, based at RAF Waddington, cost almost £80,000 a day to run and their future was raised by Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty in Parliament last month.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2025

It was announced in March 2023 the site would be turned into a business, aerospace and heritage centre following the decision to relocate the Red Arrows display team to RAF Waddington, also in Lincolnshire.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2024

The ones created by Waddington were even bigger than those in the book, “probably about a meter all the way around.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 10, 2024

Makeup artist Nadia Stacey credited Lanthimos for letting her team “go crazy,” while costume designer Holly Waddington described the film as an “experiment like no other.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2024

We have heard people discussing us sometimes in English as we pass down the long dining-room to our table—"There goes Waddington, the late French Premier."

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

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