Shari
Americannoun
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French Chari. a river in northern central Africa, flowing northwest from the Central African Republic into Lake Chad. 1,400 miles (2,254 km) long.
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a female given name.
noun
Example Sentences
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Berwick: Shari Levine ended up going into the edit bay and overseeing a complete recut of it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Media mogul Shari Redstone and superstar Dwayne Johnson were among those who attended the ceremony when Ratner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in early 2017.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
After nearly a year of wooing, tech scion David Ellison and his Skydance Media sign a deal with heiress Shari Redstone to buy her struggling media company, Paramount.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
“These medications are not safe for our patients,” says Dr. Shari Goldfarb, a breast oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025
“It still may not permit this adoption. In fact, even the more moderate Muslim nations are hesitant with adoptions because in many of those countries, Islamic law, Shari a, doesn’t recognize adoption.”
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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