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- proper noun A male
given name .
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Examples
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It was enough that he’d hung the name Maurice on the kid, but it was something else that he continued to force the boy to play baseball.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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It was enough that he’d hung the name Maurice on the kid, but it was something else that he continued to force the boy to play baseball.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Michael Moorcock threw in Maurice Richardson, while I also brought the sometimes existentialist bizarreness of the Beats.
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009
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There's full frontal nudity in Maurice Sendak's _In the Night Kitchen_.
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And while bringing in Maurice, he also moved Ron Francis behind the bench.
Demers: Easygoing GM Rutherford has 'Canes deep in playoffs 2009
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I agree, Maurice is a great actor who has just been given really bad material for the past few years.
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Maurice is using Chaucer's language to reveal differences that separate his social world from everyday life in the nineteenth century.
Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008
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Kushner wrote of those deeper anxieties, still tying them to Sendak's heritage: Maurice is a child of the Great Depression and of Jewish Depression, if I may generalise.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Defensive captain Maurice Crum was called for a flagrant pass interference, then three plays later on a late hit on the quarterback to keep a drive alive, although the Aztecs still didn't score.
USATODAY.com 2008
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(And, don't forget the name Maurice Clemmons; Huckabee's opponents sure won't if he decides to run again.) * Huckabee has aligned himself closely with Bob Vander Plaats in Iowa, the man who ran unsuccessfully for governor earlier this month and unsuccessfully challenged former Gov.
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