[
US
/ˈstivənsən/
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NOUN
- United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968)
- Scottish author (1850-1894)
How To Use Stevenson In A Sentence
- Stevenson, Anne Noted for her realistic, fast-paced stories, believable characters, and excellent use of dialogue.
- QUOTATION: Middle-aged clubwoman, with a flutter in her voice: Oh, Mr. Stevenson, your speech was superfluous. Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-65)
- I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish. From a College Window
- We all owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs Stevenson, who kindly donated the money for the project.
- Wondering how the wasted Stevenson could work so tirelessly, La Farge decided he must be an aitu, a Samoan devil spirit not bound by the laws of the flesh. The Five of Hearts
- He was investigated by Dr. Stevenson when he was five years old.
- ‘For some students this is a non-negotiable issue, and from my point of view it's unsustainable,’ Stevenson replied.
- Surely, they were capable of enacting toward women, and toward one another, the terms of Martin Buber's I-It relation — Stevenson's "tripper" and the intimidating husbands offer the most intense expressions of that capacity, and no doubt, there were many subtle expressions of it at The Farm as well. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
- In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
- But the cheese-head state's 190 CAFOs - an acronym Stevenson says is short for Concentrated Watts Up With That?