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Phelps

[ felps ]

noun

  1. William Ly·on [lahy, -, uh, n], 1865–1943, U.S. educator and literary critic.
  2. a male given name.


Phelps

/ fɛlps /

noun

  1. PhelpsMichael (Fred)1985MUSSPORT AND GAMES: swimmer Michael ( Fred ). born 1985, US swimmer, who won a record eighteen gold medals at three Olympic Games: six in 2004, eight in 2008, and four in 2012


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At the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he won seven gold medals, tying Phelps for the most golds won by a male swimmer at a single Worlds.

Only recently with prominent athletes like Phelps and Saunders sharing their own struggles with mental health issues is that taboo slowly being eroded.

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Phelps won an incredible 28 Olympic medals, including 23 gold.

Phelps is the greatest swimmer of all-time, winner of 23 Olympic gold medals.

From Time

Phelps discovered one particularly interesting factor in the surveys he conducted for his research.

Things began to look up, she said in the post, when she met Phelps, 29, on Tinder.

Until his death this year, Fred Phelps had been feeding antisemitism into the area since 1967.

After all, the small congregation— about 40 strong —is comprised almost entirely of the Phelps brood.

Raised a Methodist, Phelps was ordained a Southern Baptist minister in 1947 at the age of 17.

Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. founded the Westboro Baptist Church in 1955.

Miss Phelps was certainly one of the most homely creatures, on whom my eyes were ever compelled to rest.

It was just here that the trio came upon a group of girls of whom Edith Phelps was evidently the leader.

All the visible effect Edith Phelps' joke had upon Ruth was to send her to the unfinished scenario.

Mrs. Margaret Phelps was rather finely formed, but had no other beauty except a heavy head of silvery white hair.

Clemens was sincerely fond of Phelps and spent a good deal of time at the legation headquarters.

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