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    Eva
    noun
    a female given name, form of Eve.
  • EVA
    EVA
    extravehicular activity.

Eva

1 American  
[ee-vuh] / ˈi və /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Eve.


EVA 2 American  
Aerospace.
  1. extravehicular activity.


EVA British  

abbreviation

  1. extravehicular activity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The show’s traveling costume supervisor and associate designer Eva Maciek put it most bluntly: “I love working on it because nobody dies.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

Hosting Tuesday's event was EU lawmaker Eva Maydell who hailed the new tool.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

“This is an attractive opportunity,” Eva Lee, head of Greater China equities at Swiss bank UBS, said in a recent note.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

The sentiment is shared by her fellow Eva Perón Rachel Zegler, whose lauded London revival of Evita will transfer to Broadway next year.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Irritated, I delete what I was saying, and instead send a message to let Eva know that my mom wants my phone away.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

While EVA can flag large transactions or explain why a credit score changed, it won’t actually freeze your credit or pay a bill for you — at least not yet.

From MarketWatch Mar. 19, 2026

The EVA suits are said to be comfortable and flexible enough to be worn during launch and landing, eliminating the need to have separate IVA suits.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2024

But, “All the adult females are external and don’t have parents at the cemetery,” says EVA geneticist Guido Gnecchi-Ruscone, who led the effort to reconstruct the family trees.

From Science Magazine Apr. 24, 2024

The freighter, ordered by Taiwan’s EVA Air, took off for Taipei on April 8, according to FlightRadar24 data.

From Seattle Times Apr. 8, 2024

First thing I did was put on the inner lining of my EVA suit.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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