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Caine

[ keyn ]

noun

  1. (Sir Thomas Henry) Hall, 1853–1931, English novelist.


Caine

/ keɪn /

noun

  1. CaineMichael1933MBritishFILMS AND TV: actor Sir Michael. real name Maurice Micklewhite . born 1933, British film actor. His films include The Ipcress File (1965), Get Carter (1971), Educating Rita (1983), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and The Cider House Rules (1999).
“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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Example Sentences

There’s a reason she and Michael Caine sold their shaky marriage for appearances believably enough to win Smith her second Oscar for 1978’s “California Suite,” in which she memorably replied to her queer husband’s assurance of discretion with, “Discreet? You did everything but lick his artichoke!”

From Salon

Alongside a cast that included Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Alan Alda, Smith earned her second Academy Award playing Oscar-loser Diana Barrie, who finds herself among a motley crew of guests staying at a Beverly Hills hotel in Neil Simon’s 1978 “California Suite.”

“I do have to say, so I give these long, sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs, but they all come together. I do it a lot. I do it with Raising Caine, that story. I do it with the story on the catapults on the aircraft carriers. I do it with a lot of different stories. When I mentioned Dr. Hannibal Lecter, I’m using that as an example of people that are coming in, from ‘Silence of the Lambs.’

Caine, who was arrested in 2022, did not appear for a single day of his hearing because he was deemed unfit to do so.

From BBC

The six victims were due to deliver their victim impact statements at a special hearing in December, but this is unlikely to go ahead due to Caine's death.

From BBC

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