Marcia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Coppola, in the author’s account, was incapable of remaining faithful to his long-suffering wife, Eleanor, and Mr. Lucas is shown constantly belittling his first wife, the film editor Marcia Lucas, even as she gets an Oscar nomination for cutting “American Graffiti” and wins one for “Star Wars.”
That it came to TV more than two decades after the fact aided in our understanding of the phenomenon less as a murder trial than an unscripted soap opera playing out in front of our eyes, casting otherwise anonymous prosecutors Christopher Darden and Marcia Clark as either heroes or villains.
From Salon
The acquisition of the county beaches was first conceived by Marcia Hanscom, director of Los Angeles Coast Forever!, a nonprofit that has advocated for federal management of the fragile ecosystem for years.
From Los Angeles Times
"If I go to India, people from India pay less than people from abroad - it's fair because they have less money," added Marcia Branco from Brazil.
From Barron's
Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia are lifer clerks in an obscure, long-outmoded office in London.
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