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yorker
/ ˈɔːə /
noun
- cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat
Word History and Origins
Origin of yorker1
Example Sentences
“So, here I am a New Yorker,” he said.
They wanted some other Khalid el-Masri, thought to be an al-Qaeda associate, and not, as Amy Davidson wrote in the New Yorker, that “car salesman from Bavaria.”
In a New Yorker article in 2016, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison wrote of the existential place of race for Whites in America this way:
There’s an entire industry that has attempted to tell her story — true crime books, podcast episodes, snarky YouTube videos, think pieces in The New Yorker, tabloid headlines in the British press, a Netflix documentary and even a Lifetime movie starring Hayden Panettiere — but no one has ever summed up the prolonged fascination with Amanda Knox more neatly or darkly than Knox herself.
The New Yorker staff writer makes the case for the effects of climate change bringing about a new age of extinctions on our planet.
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