fakir
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Fakir, born in 1935 in Detroit, was the son of a factory worker from what’s now Bangladesh and a Black mother who was a musician and a minister’s daughter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving founding member of the Motown vocal group the Four Tops, has died.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
Fakir D'oudairies tried to challenge but he had too much to do and finished four and a quarter lengths back.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2023
Fakir said Mantashe had sometimes obstructed reforms and, while the obvious solution was to appoint someone else as energy minister, but he was likely to object.
From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2022
Others may miss that mad-tossed shadow, that heartbreaking defiance�but from amid the drift of leaves by the roadside, this bearded Fakir of Outcasts has caught its meaning; has heard, and given it its answer.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
Vocabulary lists containing fakir
"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
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