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- proper noun A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As far as Joey’s friends knew, he had never even mentioned the name Sheila Bellush.
Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000
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Well, Lucy – you certainly know the one word that Sheila is bound to respond to.
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We also learn that Kyle's mom Sheila is a Jersey transplant who once went by "S-WOWW."
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As Pat tries to find a new hobby (tap dancing, Buddhism, running, a makeover), she discovers that the love between herself and Sam/Sheila is here to stay and continues through thick and thin (including the death of Pat's mother from cancer).
George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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It's great to know Sheila is concerned about international submissions.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Asimov's Editor Sheila Williams Announces New Electronic Submissions 2010
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I think Sheila is a cougar from the Ministry of Burlesque Academy!
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As Pat tries to find a new hobby (tap dancing, Buddhism, running, a makeover), she discovers that the love between herself and Sam/Sheila is here to stay and continues through thick and thin (including the death of Pat's mother from cancer).
George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Sheila is so passionately committed to connecting professional women and helping them realize their potential.
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As Pat tries to find a new hobby (tap dancing, Buddhism, running, a makeover), she discovers that the love between herself and Sam/Sheila is here to stay and continues through thick and thin (including the death of Pat's mother from cancer).
George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Sheila is so passionately committed to connecting professional women and helping them realize their potential.
chained_bear commented on the word Sheila
"When Tunisian traders on the Malabar Coast asked Vasco da Gama's sailors what had brought them so far, they replied 'Christians and spices.'"
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 96
December 28, 2016