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  • proper noun A surname.

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Examples

  • ; Michael Bracken's "Professionals," which reveals that Bracken is himself a real pro when it comes to crime shorts; and of course the one I was destined to read first, "Fat Larry's Night with the Alligators" by Ken Goldman.

    Archive 2007-06-24 Bill Crider 2007

  • Kevin Bracken (145½ pounds) and Garrett Lowney (211½) each battled back from a quarterfinal loss to finish fifth, earning the U.S. team an Olympic berth in each weight class.

    USATODAY.com - Snowboarding sweep tops week's gold rush 2004

  • ** 145.5: Oscar Wood, Fountain, Colo., beat Kevin Bracken, Colorado Springs, pinning in 1: 47 and winning 3-0.

    USATODAY.com - Gardner back in Olympics 2004

  • Theatre Arts magazine said of the record: "Bracken is every inch a cockroach, and Miss Channing is perfection as the female feline who chose Shinbone Alley over the comforts of domestication."

    Archy and Mehitabel 1935

  • I've got a springer spaniel called Bracken, after Australian bowler Nathan Bracken, and a peke, Hoggard after England's Matthew Hoggard.

    Jonathan Agnew: 'I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott' William Skidelsky 2010

  • It is true that "Bracken" probably contains nothing that for sheer brave sexuality can be compared with a score of passages in

    Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Also, his newborn son is named "Bracken," and not "Breckin," as I thought (and wrote) back when the young'un was born a few weeks back.

    phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed 2009

  • "Bracken," cried Cameron, striding to him with hand outstretched, "what about the logs for the house?

    The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail Ralph Connor 1898

  • But Bracken declined to say whether the frigates had been used in any naval operations — such as the mining of Misrata port — in recent weeks.

    NATO hits Libyan ships to protect rebel-held port 2011

  • • Carolina Bracken is criminal justice research fellow at Civitas thinktank

    Prison education is ripe for reform 2011

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