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- proper noun A
patronymic surname . - proper noun A male
given name transferred back from the surname.
Etymologies
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Examples
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47 The following year he elaborated the argument in his contribution to a pamphlet, published by the Federation of American Scientists and titled One World or None—an echo of the title Wendell Willkie had chosen for his own book three years before.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Wendell is what – mid-to late 20′s and she is early to mid 30′s?
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Wendell is a neurotic twentysomething with no future.
Exclusive NEW LOW Sundance Movie Poster – Plus Check Out the Trailer – Collider.com 2010
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I thought it was a great episode. hmm well Wendell is the like a squint young Booth, so i can see why Cam might hook up with him.
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Yet the film that seems most echoed in Wendell Steavenson's script is Chinatown, the Roman Polanski/Robert Towne collaboration about a detective, finally liberated from the terminal corruption of Chinatown, who finds himself in a scandal involving wealthier participants whose relationships are just as labyrinthine and whose emotions are far more base.
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Once I can breathe again Wendell asks me, "What just happened?"
Archive 2004-07-01 Ed 2004
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Once I can breathe again Wendell asks me, "What just happened?"
All we need is Blog? Ed 2004
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Wendell is out of cigarettes and asks me for one of mine.
All we need is Blog? Ed 2003
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Wendell is out of cigarettes and asks me for one of mine.
Archive 2003-07-01 Ed 2003
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Wendell is watching Unforgiven right now while I tick away at the computer.
Archive 2003-02-01 Ed 2003
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