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Lise

American  
[lee-suh, -zuh] / ˈli sə, -zə /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Elizabeth.


Example Sentences

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Lise, an accountant with lips “normally pressed together like the ruled line of a balance sheet,” is taking a vacation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lise has run-ins with other passengers aboard her flight and, once at her destination, befriends a bumbling, dotty widow.

From The Wall Street Journal

Only Spark could pull off a character as strange, compelling and ultimately moving as Lise.

From The Wall Street Journal

Indeed, as the French science journalist Lise Barnéoud explains in her fascinating book, “Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity,” the phenomenon isn’t even rare.

From The Wall Street Journal

The president of the Norwegian FA, Lise Klaveness, admits that Grainger was not on their initial list of candidates when they started to recruit for a new head coach and was only added to increase the number of females they saw.

From BBC