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Abby

American  
[ab-ee] / ˈæb i /

noun

  1. a first name, form of Abigail.


Example Sentences

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Spokeswoman Abby Lunardini said it is “supporting long-term policy reforms that are long overdue and supported by strong majorities of people.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Stacy opened the front door and cleared the way for Abby to get out and she turned around and nobody was there,” Nadler said.

From Los Angeles Times

Mitchell is missing a host of names from his run to the world title, with usual skipper Zoe Stratford and Abbie Ward both pregnant and Emily Scarratt and Abby Dow having retired from playing.

From BBC

Epidemiologist Abby Lippman dubbed such exaggeration of what genes do “geneticization,” and Ball calls geneticization a “hair’s breadth away from eugenics.”

From Slate

But top romance writers—like Jasmine Guillory, Abby Jimenez, Helen Hoang and Nicholas Sparks—work hard to deliver exactly what their fans want, regularly turning breakout individual books into ongoing franchises and readers into repeat customers.

From The Wall Street Journal