Sinclair
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Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
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May, 1865?–1946, British novelist.
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Upton (Beall) 1878–1968, U.S. novelist, socialist, and reformer.
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a male given name: a family name taken from a French placename, Saint Clair.
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Sir Clive ( Marles ). born 1940, English electronics engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, who produced such electronic goods as pocket calculators and some of the first home computers; however, the Sinclair C5 (1985), a small light electric vehicle for one person, proved a commercial failure
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Upton ( Beall ). 1878–1968, US novelist, whose The Jungle (1906) exposed the working and sanitary conditions of the Chicago meat-packing industry and prompted the passage of food inspection laws
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Carson 15, Gardena 4: Kris Sinclair had two hits and three RBIs for the Colts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Derek Sinclair, a senior welfare rights expert from the charity Contact, said the changes would be a "massive financial blow".
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Led by post-doctoral fellow Ryan Sinclair Paterson at the University of Copenhagen, the research extends the time range for obtaining meaningful protein sequences by millions of years.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
Joe Sinclair, president of Iowa farm retailer Quality Ag Services, said he recently sold corn seed to a grower who had projected his fields would yield 200 bushels of corn an acre.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
“What if Stavros Sinclair isn’t Le Fantôme?” she asked.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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