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Wolff

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[vawlf, woolf] / vɔlf, wʊlf /

noun

  1. Christian von Baron. Also 1679–1754, German philosopher and mathematician.

  2. Kaspar Friedrich 1733–94, German anatomist and physiologist.


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In 2023 it hired Wolff Olins, the branding agency behind the look of trendy coffee chain Blank Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Wolff emphasised that he had always pursued a policy of equality between drivers since he took over the leadership of Mercedes in 2013.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says critics who accuse the team of bias against George Russell are "brainless".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Wolff said: "We don't know which one is going to be quicker."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Like Aristotle, Wolff imagined that the embryo contained some sort of encrypted information—code—that was not merely a miniature version of a human, but instructions to make a human from scratch.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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