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Morrison

[mawr-uh-suhn, mor-]

noun

  1. Herbert Stanley 1888–1965, English labor leader and statesman.

  2. Toni 1931–2019, U.S. novelist: Nobel Prize 1993.

  3. a male given name.



Morrison

/ ˈɒɪə /

noun

  1. Herbert Stanley, Baron Morrison of Lambeth. 1888–1965, British Labour statesman, Home Secretary and Minister for Home Security in Churchill's War Cabinet (1942–45)

  2. Jim, full name James Douglas Morrison. 1943–71, US rock singer and songwriter, lead vocalist with the Doors

  3. Toni, full name Chloe Anthony Morrison. born 1931, US novelist, whose works include Sula (1974), Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1998): awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993

  4. Van, full name George Ivan Morrison. born 1945, Northern Irish rock singer and songwriter. His albums include Astral Weeks (1968), Moondance (1970), Avalon Sunset (1989), and Days Like These (1995)

“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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“This is the watershed moment where things need to change,” said Rep. Kelly Morrison, D-Minn, calling Lee’s rhetoric “dangerous and harmful.”

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Toni Morrison, whose “Beloved” changed me when I first read it as a teen, showed me how a novel can be ghost story, reckoning, testimony and lullaby all at once.

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Morrisons has argued that this means that it doesn't apply to heated tobacco products, as they don't produce smoke.

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But when the Aukus agreement was signed in 2021, all three countries had very different leaders - Joe Biden in the US, Boris Johnson in the UK and Scott Morrison in Australia.

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Mr Decker's outdoor survival skills may be helping him evade the authorities searching for him, which includes the FBI, Sheriff Morrison said.

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