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  • proper noun Any of several places in the UK, US, and Canada.
  • proper noun A habitational surname from the English place name.

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Examples

  • Janet Davison Rowley is a human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers.

    Sixteen to get Presidential Medal of Freedom 2009

  • Coleen Rowley is the FBI staff attorney who caused a sensation in May with a memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller about how the bureau brushed off pleas from her Minneapolis, Minn., field office that Zacarias Moussaoui, who is now indicted as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator, was a man who must be investigated.

    Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Poor Captain Rowley and the assistant-surgeon of the 68th are dead.

    Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol 1856

  • A complete edition of whatever he left, either under his own name or that of Rowley, is still to be desired.

    Letter 173 1796

  • Bearded and bespectacled in his orange jail jumpsuit, Sears argued calmly that the prison time he owed for his parole violation should run concurrently with whatever prison term Rowley sentenced him to.

    theithacajournal.com - 2010

  • Bearded and bespectacled in his orange jail jumpsuit, Sears argued calmly that the prison time he owed for his parole violation should run concurrently with whatever prison term Rowley sentenced him to.

    theithacajournal.com - 2010

  • The man he had called Rowley looked for a moment as though he were going to argue, but Captain Curtis took a step toward him, and he let go of my arm.

    The White Mountains John Christopher 2003

  • The man he had called Rowley looked for a moment as though he were going to argue, but Captain Curtis took a step toward him, and he let go of my arm.

    The White Mountains John Christopher 2003

  • In fashion circles, the name Cynthia Rowley is synonymous for whimsical dresses and feminine separates, but America has yet to meet the woman behind the...

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jason Hughes 2012

  • In fashion circles, the name Cynthia Rowley is synonymous for whimsical dresses and feminine separates, but America has yet to meet the woman behind the...

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jason Hughes 2012

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