de Vries

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1. A surname from Dutch.

1. Alternative letter-case form of de Vries: a surname from Dutch.

   Off comes start striker [Myer] Bevan and on comes New Zealand international Ryan De Vries.

   2025 June 20, Nancy Froston, “How Benfica hit Auckland City for six at the Club World Cup after a two-hour weather delay”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2025

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   Plant-breeders have long believed that by selecting desirable variations we have an efficient means of improving plants just as evolutionists have held and many continue to hold that evolution goes forward by means of natural selection from these variations. But there is a new school, headed by the Dutch botanist, [Hugo] De Vries, who believe that these variations do not produce anything new, but that they always oscillate around an average, and if removed from this for a time, they show a tendency to return to it.

   1913 April, U[lysses] P[rentiss] Hedrick, “The Domestication of American Grapes”, in J[ames] McKeen Cattell, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume LXXXII, New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 351

   Judge Marion De Vries resigned today as Judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals to take up the practice of law after a public service of thirty-five years.

   1922 November 1, “Judge [Marion] De Vries Resigns. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026

   ADMIRERS of the work of Peter De Vries (and this reviewer is a stanch one) may find the hilarity in his new book not only rather forced, even for him, but a bit warmed over.

   1959 July 19, A. C. Spectorsky, “In Decency, Conn.: The Tents of Wickedness. By Peter De Vries. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026