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Hopkins

[hop-kinz]

noun

  1. Anthony, born 1937, English actor, born in Wales.

  2. Sir Frederick Gowland 1861–1947, English physician and biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929.

  3. Gerard Manley 1844–89, English poet.

  4. Harry Lloyd, 1890–1946, U.S. government administrator and social worker.

  5. Johns, 1795–1873, U.S. financier and philanthropist.

  6. Mark, 1802–87, U.S. clergyman and educator.

  7. a city in SE Minnesota.



Hopkins

/ ˈɒɪԳ /

noun

  1. Sir Anthony. born 1937, Welsh actor: his films include Bounty (1984), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Shadowlands (1994), Nixon (1995), and Hannibal (2001)

  2. Sir Frederick Gowland (ˈɡaʊlənd). 1861–1947, British biochemist, who pioneered research into what came to be called vitamins: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1929)

  3. Gerard Manley. 1844–89, British poet and Jesuit priest, who experimented with sprung rhythm in his highly original poetry

  4. Harry L ( loyd ). 1890–1946, US administrator. During World War II he was a personal aide to President Roosevelt and administered the lend-lease programme

“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 effort to right the ship was a manual process, according to researchers from 38 North, a website run by the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University in the US.

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"Retailers are responding to growing consumer demand for simpler, more recognisable ingredient lists," says Harrogate-based Mr Hopkins.

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Afterward, she got an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and landed a finance job with U.S.

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He went back to the US and did his master's at Johns Hopkins University, and now works at Chinese tech giant Baidu.

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“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti,” Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter famously said.

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