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Cary

[ kair-ee, kar-ee ]

noun

  1. Alice, 1820–71, U.S. poet (sister of Phoebe Cary).
  2. (Arthur) Joyce (Lu·nel) [loon, -l], 1888–1957, English novelist.
  3. Henry Francis, 1772–1844, British writer and translator.
  4. Phoebe, 1824–71, U.S. poet (sister of Alice Cary).
  5. a town in central North Carolina.
  6. a male given name.
  7. a female given name, form of Caroline.


Cary

/ ˈkærɪ; ˈkɛərɪ /

noun

  1. CaryArthur) Joyce18881957MBritishWRITING: novelist ( Arthur ) Joyce ( Lunel ). 1888–1957, British novelist; author of Mister Johnson (1939), A House of Children (1941), and The Horse's Mouth (1944)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The larger of the two is a monumental bronze figure on horseback, cast by Beaux-Arts sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey in the first decade of the 20th century and titled “The Dying Indian.”

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There are scenes whose dialogue, with a little adjustment, could have served Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, or Carole Lombard and John Barrymore; it’s the world as once scripted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur or Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, if not quite to that level, and the combination of theatrical speech and location shooting — in and around New York’s Lincoln Center and the Palais Garnier and Salle Favart in Paris — makes for something interesting.

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Corona and Huntington Beach, the top two high school baseball teams in California, were beaten on Friday morning in the semifinals of the National High School Invitational in Cary, N.C., by two top teams from Florida.

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On Thursday in a quarterfinal game of the National High School Invitational baseball tournament in Cary, N.C., he struck out 11, walked one and gave up an unearned run in a 4-1 win over Miami Columbus.

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Having never trailed all season, No. 1-ranked Corona High faced its first bout with adversity on Wednesday in an opening game of the National High School Invitational baseball tournament in Cary, N.C.

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