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- proper noun A male
given name , a spelling variant ofJeffrey . - proper noun A
patronymic surname .
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Your parcell was brought to us by a young man at Mr Evans's, who says that Mr Jeffery is gone for a few days down to Essex, and will be back again this week, and will call on me, and then proposes to set off for Worthing on Monday next, so that I shall probably be with you on Tuesday.
Letter 171 2009
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Jeffery is an international best-selling author and filmmaker, and is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT).
Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Jeffery Smith Maria Rodale 2010
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The turning point in Jeffery's story, the making of a secret service with a truly international range, was the Second World War.
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery Robert McCrum 2010
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Jeffery is an international best-selling author and filmmaker, and is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT).
Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Jeffery Smith Maria Rodale 2010
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Yes, well, anyone can go read the link I left above to where he lied here on YRHT, follow the links in those other comments where he lied on First Draft, and see that Jeffery is an established and proven liar.
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My Institute for the Future colleague Lyn Jeffery is a brilliant cultural anthropologist who has been spending extended periods in China for twenty years.
Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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It is Amelia who "walks the grid" for Rhyme, acting as his eyes and ears for the famously dangerous and difficult cases chronicled in Jeffery Deaver's bestselling novels The Bone Collector, The Coffin Dancer, and The Empty Chair.
The Stone Monkey: Summary and book reviews of The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver. 2002
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For the James Bond book it is as if a new writer has emerged who is also known as Jeffery Deaver.
Jackie K. Cooper: Carte Blanche: James Bond Gets the Deaver Touch Jackie K. Cooper 2011
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For the James Bond book it is as if a new writer has emerged who is also known as Jeffery Deaver.
Jackie K. Cooper: Carte Blanche: James Bond Gets the Deaver Touch Jackie K. Cooper 2011
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The princess in a different Givenchy in each scene, Chaucer made accessible by brilliant acting and writing and by being called Jeffery and by appearing naked, the chick carbonizing steel and knocking, can you forget the name Thatcher? on his butt to test it, and the soundtrack.
"Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character." Ann Althouse 2008
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