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Woodward

[ wood-werd ]

noun

  1. C(omer) Vann, 1908–99, U.S. historian.
  2. Robert Burns, 1917–79, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1965.
  3. a town in northwestern Oklahoma.


Woodward

/ ˈwʊdwəd /

noun

  1. WoodwardClive1956MBritishSPORT: rugby-union coach Sir Clive . born 1956, English Rugby Union player and subsequently (1997–2004) coach of the England team that won the Rugby World Cup in 2003.
  2. WoodwardR(obert) B(urns)19171979MUSSCIENCE: chemist R ( obert ) B ( urns ). 1917–79, US chemist. For his work on the synthesis of quinine, strychnine, cholesterol, and other organic compounds he won the Nobel prize for chemistry 1965


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Example Sentences

Woodward, the pitcher’s manager, said it “slipped out of his hand and went wide.”

To challenge bunk’s power, the protagonist of Woodward’s novel determined to “take the bunk out of things.”

From Time

Woodward noted that the exhaustion felt by medical staff, and in particular nurses, is a frightening component of this latest surge that sets it apart from the most difficult peaks in the spring and summer.

The exasperation, according to Woodward, was mutual among the likes of former defense secretary and retired general Jim Mattis and former director of national intelligence Dan Coats.

From Fortune

Woodward says he was subsequently able to confirm the existence of that secret new weapons system, but was unable to procure additional details.

From Fortune

The 1950s, observed C. Vann Woodward, resembled the era of Reconstruction in many ways.

In 1958, he married Woodward, and they subsequently had three daughters of their own.

Dutch Leonard, who had been listening real good his whole life, on Woodward Avenue and on Navy ships, was going to write.

For people like Woodward who look different than the norm, these kinds of awkward first-liners are a fact of life.

Woodward chronicles these reactions on her blog “Step Funny Right Now.”

On one occasion Hannah was taken ill, and Dr. Woodward, evidently a literary man of that time, was sent for to attend her.

Woodward, the Secretary of the old board, had been removed, and became the Secretary of the newly constituted board.

Ahead of him lay the worst place on the entire mail route, the Woodward Pass.

The parents are members of the Christian Science church and in his political views Mr. Woodward is a republican.

After Mr. Thresher's ministry closed amongst them, Mr. Woodward became the pastor.

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