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[ US /ˈɹid/ ]
[ US /ˈɹid/ ]
NOUN
- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
- United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
How To Use Reed In A Sentence
- Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
- The couples agreed on a discreet slate-tiled mansard roof extension that gave each house an additional 30sq m of floor space. Times, Sunday Times
- Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
- I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
- Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey
- Freedom was alive as well, in a vivid and scarcely palatable way. Times, Sunday Times
- The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
- Some game bird breeders even debeak the birds or attach "peepers" or googles to their eyes to keep them attacking each other in the packed pens. (see: caged hen egg operations.) Is your state breeding birds for Dick Cheney style hunting like Illinois?
- That should have spelled the end of the convertible, except for one thing: The open car with its sun-baked, wind-blown passengers became a symbol of youth, freedom, and sexuality.
- This white-naped mangabey monkey was born at The Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy, and is part of an international breeding program to keep the species alive.