Rendell

/ rɛnˈdɛl; ˈrɛndəl /

noun

1. RendellRuth (Barbara)1930FBritishWRITING: crime writer Ruth ( Barbara ), Baroness. born 1930, British crime writer: author of detective novels, such as Wolf to the Slaughter (1967), and psychological thrillers, such as The Lake of Darkness (1980) and (under the name Barbara Vine ) A Fatal Inversion (1987) and The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (1998)

Example Sentences

“A candidate can't go into a county to talk to 1,200 people,” says former Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.

From BBC

Rendell notes that the current governor, Democrat Josh Shapiro, is a big help for Democrats here, as he is very popular in the state and a dynamic speaker – qualities that had made him the odds-on favourite to be Harris’s vice-presidential pick.

From BBC

Luke Rendell, lecturer in biology at the Sea Mammal Research Unit for the University of St. Andrews, questions the ability to translate the sounds made by sperm whales into human language.

From Salon

“The really critical thing about the way that humans use phonemes and sequences of phonemes is that it's very hard to predict what the next one's going to be,” Rendell told Salon during a video interview he conducted onboard a research vessel near the Scottish Isle of Eigg in the North Sea.

From Salon

According to Rendell, the evidence shows whales are mainly repeating the same phoneme over and over again instead of actually combining varieties of phonemes into complex words.

From Salon