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Wheelock

American  
[hwee-lok, wee-] / ˈʰwi lɒk, ˈwi- /

noun

  1. Eleazar, 1711–79, U.S. clergyman and educator: founded Dartmouth College.


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At the Wheelock Hall farm shop, a man told me the standing charge on his energy bills had gone up and his car insurance had doubled.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024

“I thought that the light elements in the painting and the way it flowed in made a lot of sense in terms of the way Rembrandt was working,” Wheelock said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, took her oath from Judge Sarah Wheelock, the first Native American on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2023

In the 1990s, NGA curator Arthur Wheelock, an acknowledged Vermeer expert and recently retired, had “Girl With a Flute” designated as “attributed to Vermeer.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022

Jim Wheelock, however, noticed very little as he leaned on the rail with a vindictive hatred in his heart for the man who, it seemed, was bent upon his father's ruin.

From Thrice Armed by Harold Bindloss

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