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Spock

[ spok ]

noun

  1. Benjamin (Mc·Lane) [m, uh, -, kleyn], 1903–98, U.S. physician and educator.


Spock

/ spɒk /

noun

  1. SpockBenjamin19031998MUSMEDICINE: paediatrician Benjamin, known as Dr Spock. 1903–98, US paediatrician, noted for his influential work The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child (1946), which challenged traditional notions of child care, advocating a more permissive approach


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President Barack Obama, presumably, would be Mr. Spock, emotionally distant with a cold logic all his own.

Mr. Spock faced something worse than the wrath of Khan on Thursday: the wrath of Congress.

Nero, the angry Romulan, traveled to the past to kill the present Spock.

Old Spock (Leonard Nimoy) reunites with Kirk (Chris Pine) and explains this whole thing.

James T. Kirk and Spock (nouns) Main characters in Star Trek.

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