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- proper noun a
Scottish andNorthern Irish surname , variant ofRankin .
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Examples
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Rankine began with a feeling of outrage and has done something more expansive with it than the easier satisfaction of taking personal offense.
Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011
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Rankine began with a feeling of outrage and has done something more expansive with it than the easier satisfaction of taking personal offense.
Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011
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Colburn passed on a demo recorded by singer Stuart Murdoch and bassist Stuart David, which impressed lecturer Alan Rankine (formerly of the Associates) and the rest of the students so much that a whole album was commissioned.
Love, Belle and Sebastian-style Laura Barton 2010
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Rankine is less interested in putting Hoagland in his place than she is in creating a place for discussion -- about bigger issues than one poem, and between many more people.
Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011
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Michael Rankine opened the scoring on 19 minutes and Peter Vincenti made sure of the win eight minutes from time.
League Two round-up: Swindon beat Crawley as Morecambe stay top 2011
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Most concentrating solar power plants use mirrors and Rankine cycle steam turbines to spin the generators.
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Rankine elaborates: "We tend to alternate between a man and a woman every year, and I think we do choose judges who have name recognition and will draw a lot of submissions."
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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Rankine elaborates: "We tend to alternate between a man and a woman every year, and I think we do choose judges who have name recognition and will draw a lot of submissions."
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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Most concentrating solar power plants use mirrors and Rankine cycle steam turbines to spin the generators.
tingilinde: 2009
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Ashley Grimes put Rochdale ahead but second‑half strikes from Michael Rankine and Danny Hylton won it for the League Two club.
Rubén Rochina helps Blackburn make Orient's Carling Cup hopes go west 2011
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