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Malinda

American  
[muh-lin-duh] / məˈlɪn də /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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“The cost shift narrative is a red herring,” argued plaintiff’s attorney Malinda Dickenson, representing the Center for Biological Diversity, the Environmental Working Group and the Protect Our Communities Foundation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

She also references Malinda Russell, the first Black American to publish a cookbook.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2025

"This is a low-income area, people are not rich here, and people will exploit opportunities for income," explains Malinda Gardiner from Conservation South Africa.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

The Toledo Blade reports that the county coroner’s office on Friday identified the man and woman killed as Brent Roscoe and Malinda Moore.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2022

Envious people have hinted at this as the attraction which first caught the respected mother of my Malinda Jane and the respected mother-in-law of myself; but ideas so unbecoming I repel with proper scorn.

From Trifles for the Christmas Holidays by Armstrong, H. S.