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  • proper noun An English surname, originally a nickname from the Norman French for wolf.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)

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Examples

  • Captain Lovell is one who was under fire in as exacting a manner as any man could be during the hazardous flight of Apollo 13.

    The Apollo XIII Mission 1970

  • "You can't swing a dead cat in Hannibal without hitting something to do with Mark Twain," Lovell is telling an audience gathered outside his home on April 21, 100 years after his death.

    Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again 2010

  • Benjamin Lovell, 48, pleaded innocent on Tuesday to charges that he withdrew money from a Commerce Bank account that had been opened by someone with the same name, prosecutors said.

    2008 February 26 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • Benjamin Lovell, 48, pleaded innocent on Tuesday to charges that he withdrew money from a Commerce Bank account that had been opened by someone with the same name, prosecutors said.

    Too Harsh? Or Penalty Fits The Crime? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • TORONTO (AP) Kevin Lovell's 33-yard, fourth-quarter field goal lifted Cincinnati to a 27-24 victory over Western Michigan on Saturday in the International Bowl the first college bowl played in Canada and first outside the United States since 1937.

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • Lovell is a magician by trade, and much of the book is given over to detailed sleight-of-hand HOWTOs for palming, greasing, fixing and cheating cards, dice, coins, and so on.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Truth be told, this section bogged down a little for me -- unlike, say, The Big Con, which tries to give a representative sample of the world's con-games, Lovell is bent on detailing all of them.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Evan adds, Simon Lovell is crazy but extremely nice, I've known him for quite a while and seen him perform.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Kevin Lovell finished it with a 46-yard field goal to put Cincinnati back ahead, 13-12.

    USATODAY.com - College Football - Cincinnati vs. Virginia Tech 2006

  • TORONTO (AP) - Kevin Lovell's 33-yard, fourth-quarter field goal lifted Cincinnati to a 27-24 victory over Western Michigan on Saturday in the International Bowl - the first college bowl played in Canada and first outside the United States since 1937.

    USATODAY.com - College Football - W. Michigan vs. Cincinnati 2006

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