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Amanda

American  
[uh-man-duh] / əˈmæn də /

noun

  1. a first name: from a Latin word meaning “beloved.”


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In Rumaan Alam’s quietly eerie novel, vacationers Amanda and Clay drive with their two children from Brooklyn, N.Y., out to Long Island, where they plan to spend a week in a house presciently marketed as the “ultimate escape.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Amanda is enraptured with its aspirational luxury: “The house had that hush expensive houses do. Silence meant the house was plumb, solid, its organs working in happy harmony.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He is also a musician, former boxer and a current judge on Britain's Got Talent alongside Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon.

From BBC

Amanda Walencewicz, another attendee, said she’ll go see any concert film in theaters, as they’re her favorite movie genre.

From Los Angeles Times

When I say I am a couple of episodes behind on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” she interjects: “Oh my God, that Amanda — I can’t. No, no, no, no, no.”

From Los Angeles Times