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Bonnie

American  
[bon-ee] / ˈbɒn i /
Or Bonny

noun

  1. a female given name: from the Latin word meaning “good.”


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“I think it was partly because I liked how short most poems were but also how they contained secret messages you had to decode,” muses Batter, the narrator of Bonnie Garmus’s “Peck & Peck.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“This is a reach, so far as I can tell,” said Bonnie Klapper, a former federal narcotics prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Chatfield quickly became an integral part of Chávez’s inner circle and would meet his future wife, Bonnie Burns, a fellow educator, through his UFW work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The extended look spent a long time showcasing the relationship between protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Camino, the couple at the centre of GTA 6's "Bonnie and Clyde" story.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Like me, most of the people I knew had moved to New York with the express purpose of escaping Americans such as Bonnie.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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