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Jukes

American  
[jooks] / dʒuks /

noun

  1. the fictitious name of an actual family that was the focus of a 19th-century sociological study of the inheritance of feeble-mindedness and its correlation with social degeneracy.


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Jukes said it was having "as big an impact as the pursuit of corrupt officers in Sir Robert Marks' commissionership".

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

"We're keen to exit those officers who don't display the standards required in the organisation, and we're going to do that in ways which are quick and focused," Jukes added.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

"We're operating a criminal justice system which, in order to protect the courtroom, really locks down information about investigations when they're under way," Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes, the UK's head of counter-terrorism policing, told Panorama.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2025

But Mr Jukes found Telegram, host of several large groups in which disorder was organised and hate and disinformation were shared, hard to deal with.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

When Mary and I came to examine our ant-lion dragon the day after our adventures among the Morrowbie Jukes pits, we found him dead in the bottle of sand.

From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)

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