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Congreve

[kon-greev, kong-] / ˈkɒn griv, ˈkɒŋ- /


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They are "tuneable", says Dr Congreve, to your desired colour and could even be mixed into a solution and then painted onto surfaces as light-emitting layers.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023

Any woman of a certain age in anything by Shakespeare, Dickens, Congreve, Dryden or Sheridan.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

Easing the actors on to Planet Congreve was movement director Francine Watson Coleman.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2019

“It’s got that same kind of cruelty,” says Rebeck, who looked at an obscure 17th-century suggestion Rickman made before settling on the Congreve staple.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

"How do you account for the pendant which, according to Sir Arthur, belongs to his wife, Lady Congreve, being in Miss Moore's possession," Fergusson here put in.

From Christina by Moberly, L. G.




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