Duffy

American  

[duhf-ee] / ˈdʌf i /

noun

1. Sir Charles Gavan 1816–1903, Irish and Australian politician.

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Duffy British  

/ ˈdʌfɪ /

noun

1. Carol Ann. born 1955, British poet and writer; poet laureate from 2009, her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), The World's Wife (1999), and Rapture (2005)

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Example Sentences

And that behavior, Duffy told me, runs counter to the rational-actor model economists typically rely on.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Duffy and Yue Li, an associate professor of economics at the State University of New York at Albany, co-authored a new study, “Early Social Security Claiming and Slow Asset Decumulation: Experimental Evidence.“

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

“We incentivized them to try to smooth consumption consistent with a lot of economic models,” Duffy said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

“The reality is this sense of two-way resentment is overblown,” said Bobby Duffy, author of “The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

One day Corkrane had invited him into a foursome—Coyne had been the only man in sight—and Corkrane had taken him as a partner against such redoubtable opponents as Millar and Duffy.

From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van