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Leif

American  
[leef, leyf] / lif, leɪf /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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Assistant Leif Gunnar Smerud was named interim coach while the team searches for Straus’ replacement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026

Upon completion of the financing round, Wallenberg Investments intends to nominate its senior industrialist Hakan Buskhe as a board member of Stegra, and senior advisor Leif Johansson as chair of the board.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Even in the EFL, which does not have VAR, Ipswich's Leif Davis was recently banned after being picked up on camera pulling the hair of Leicester's Caleb Okoli.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Funding was provided by organizations including the Swedish Research Council, the Hållsten Research Foundation, the Alzheimer's Foundation and the private initiative Innovative ways to fight Alzheimer´s disease -- Leif Lundblad Family and others and RIKEN.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

"But Grandmamma," I said, "how did they know that the porpoise was actually Leif?"

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

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