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Doyle

[ doil ]

noun

  1. Sir Arthur Co·nan [kaw, -n, uh, n, koh, -], 1859–1930, British physician, novelist, and detective-story writer.


Doyle

/ dɔɪl /

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I am lucky on Secret Six to have an editor, Mark Doyle, who agrees, we want people to gasp out loud.

Last year, Los Alamos officials told Doyle that his article should never have been cleared for publication.

Doyle, officially a contractor, said he was told that he was being let go as part of a program of layoffs at the New Mexico lab.

But Doyle said officials refused to tell him who it was or why.

Fearey told him he needed to balance his anti-nuclear views with pro-nuclear arguments, Doyle recalls.

Sherlock Holmes is the hero of the famous detective stories of Conan Doyle.

The assistant surgeon, James Doyle, a cheery young Irishman, also joined that morning.

Mrs. Doyle Grahame enjoyed the conviction that marriage settles all difficulties, if one goes about it rightly.

"Old John Brown" took old man Doyle and two sons and two other men in the dead hour of night and put them to death.

"Marge, I have an elegant idea," said Mrs. Doyle, seating herself resolutely in an armchair opposite her daughter.

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doyenneDoyle, Sir Arthur Conan