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Samantha

American  
[suh-man-thuh] / səˈmæn θə /

noun

  1. a female given name: from an Aramaic word meaning “listener.”


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“Everyone’s first reaction when I tell them that this is what we’re doing now is, ‘What?’ with a raised eyebrow,” said Samantha Pohlman, the affiliate’s aesthetics program director.

From The Wall Street Journal

Det Ch Insp Samantha Townsend said: "This latest arrest demonstrates our commitment to this investigation, almost five years after Camron's death."

From BBC

Samantha Reilly, a 58-year-old accountant from Long Island who attended the event, said she saw Newsom as a strong presidential candidate.

From Barron's

The unrelenting, full-tilt brutality of this “Wuthering Heights,” according to Brontë historian Samantha Ellis, led one critic to assert, “How a human being could have attempted such a book . . . without committing suicide . . . is a mystery.”

From Salon

Samantha Prince, pensions expert at Penn State Dickinson Law, points out in a new paper how heavily the costs of stock-market “volatility” — that lovely Wall Street euphemism — fall on those often least able to bear them.

From MarketWatch