Saint, a.d. 422–512, French nun: patron saint of Paris.
a female given name.
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Now a Category 4 hurricane and moving northwest with sustained winds of about 155 mph, Genevieve is expected to generate up to 11-foot swells by Wednesday afternoon along beaches that face south and southwest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Genevieve McDonald, a former political director for Platner’s campaign who resigned after his Reddit posts became public, said the campaign failed to conduct an adequate vetting operation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
“None of the characters in an Allie Rowbottom book are well mothered,” said the novelist Chelsea Bieker, who workshops manuscripts with Rowbottom alongside Genevieve Hudson and T Kira Madden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
In 2022, Katie and John Meehan's nine-month-old daughter, Genevieve, died at a nursery in Stockport, Greater Manchester.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
They even had a chance to meet Hitt’s wife, Genevieve Young Hitt, who was also a code breaker.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Geneviève de Galard became a celebrated figure exactly 70 years ago when she was the only woman nurse tending French casualties inside the doomed redoubt of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam.
From BBC ● May 31, 2024
This article was written in collaboration with Geneviève Masson, a sports nutritionist who advises high performance athletes at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific and teaches at Langara College in Vancouver.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023
But both Susan Graham, as Geneviève, and the remarkable 11-year-old boy soprano, Kai Edgar, as Golaud’s son, Yniold, function on a different plane, and both sing with exquisite finesse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
“People with disabilities often lack confidence in themselves and think of themselves as excluded from all these events,” said the minister, Geneviève Darrieussecq.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Geneviève is taken from bed, and shows up in her nightgown.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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