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ralph

1

[ ralf ]

verb (used without object)

Slang.
  1. to vomit.


Ralph

2

[ ralfor, especially British, reyf, rahf, rahlf ]

noun

  1. a male given name: from Old Norse words meaning “counsel” and “wolf.”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ralph1

First recorded in 1965–70; apparently of expressive origin
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For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

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She first tracks Kinkade from his impoverished Placerville, Calif., youth to his late-1970s days as a bohemian art student at UC Berkeley and Pasadena’s ArtCenter College of Design, followed by his work as a background artist for Ralph Bakshi’s 1983 animated fantasy “Fire and Ice.”

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We can reflect on a momentous decision by Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, and other civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963.

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Using one-time owner Stephen J. Cannell’s desk as an anchor, designer Carmine Sabatella personalized the Gentleman’s Retreat with Ralph Lauren equestrian wallpaper on the ceiling and walls, a forest-themed vinyl wall covering on the wall behind the desk where Cannell worked and Sabatella’s personal leather chaise lounge.

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WTO Chief Economist Ralph Ossa said: "Tariffs are a policy lever with wide-ranging, and often unintended consequences."

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