Maria
noun
Maria
1 American
[muh-ree-uh]
/ məˈri ə /
noun
Maria
2
American
[muh-ree-uh, -rahy-uh, mah-ree-ah]
/ məˈri ə, -ˈraɪ ə, mɑˈri ɑ /
noun
maria
British
/ ˈmɑːrɪə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Maria
Shortening of Santa Maria ( def. ).
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Among them was Maria Schönbächler, Professor of Isotope Geochemistry at ETH Zurich, whose laboratory received half a gram of Bennu material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The Santa Maria Police Department declined to comment and referred questions to ICE.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“The market has real concerns about the French fiscal situation,” said Maria Llerena, director of financial research at Domini Impact Investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"We are calling for presidential elections and the return of our leader Maria Corina Machado," 43-year-old opposition activist Erika Cedeno told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Maria was almost as dark as herself, so Nhamo guessed that the trader’s wife wasn’t Portuguese.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The close-up image of the Moon's surface includes dark areas known as maria and bright areas known as the highlands.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Lobate scarps appear in the highlands, while SMRs are found only in the maria.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
"Our detection of young, small ridges in the maria, and our discovery of their cause, completes a global picture of a dynamic, contracting moon," Watters said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
It has a thicker crust, more craters and fewer maria, or plains where lava once flowed.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
On the back, there are no smooth maria, but only highlands which have been scarred by the impact of meteorites over billions of years.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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