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The Pierces had tried to have a child for seven years before they decided to adopt the embryo Linda Archerd, 62, made with her then-husband in 1994 through IVF.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

Once the storm passed, Jermain Wells, a neighbor of the Pierces, went door-to-door searching for survivors in need.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023

His Emmy episode: “Tern Haven,” where the Roys spend the weekend with the Pierces, a family with its own share of eccentrics, and try to play nice so they’ll agree to merge their media companies.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2020

In some ways, though, the sensibilities of the Pierces and the Roys are not that far apart.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2019

Gabriel Harvey in 1593, in his' Pierces Supererogation,' page 190, exclaims ' and what profounde Mathematician like Digges, Hariot, or Dee esteemeth not the pregnant Mechanician ?'

From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Stevens, Henry