Woolley
Americannoun
noun
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One study, by Jo-Ellen Pozner and Jennifer L. Woolley at Santa Clara University, found that craft businesses started by couples were half as likely to close as others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
June Spencer, who played matriarch Peggy Woolley in BBC Radio 4's long-running drama The Archers from 1951 until her retirement in 2022, has died at the age of 105.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2024
Peggy Woolley, formerly Archer, was often viewed as a traditionalist, conservative character in the soap opera charting the ups and downs of life in fictional village of Ambridge.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2024
John Woolley, a professor emeritus of political science and co-director of the American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara, said people’s feelings about this race being particularly jarring are valid.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2024
But you can’t be like Woolley by simply sitting still and wanting to be so.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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