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SANGER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)

Synonyms:

Margaret Higgins Sanger; Margaret Sanger; Sanger

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

nurse (one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician))

Sense 2

Meaning:

English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)

Synonyms:

Fred Sanger; Frederick Sanger; Sanger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)

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