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Tanya

American  
[tan-yuh, tahn-] / ˈtæn yə, ˈtɑn- /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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Earlier this month, The New York Times’ Tanya Sichynsky dedicated an entire newsletter to the vegetable after a reader reached out, asking how they could use up all the cabbage they received from their local farmers’ market.

From Salon

Romance novelist Florence Keeling, born in Coventry, writes under her name as well as using the pen name Charlie Dean and the darker romance material as Tanya Mounts.

From BBC

—Tanya Bush is a writer and baker.

From The Wall Street Journal

School board member Tanya Franklin spoke in a similar vein Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times

That post mentioning the card, which delivers citizenship in the United States for those who pay $1 million, may have referred to multiple petitions arguing that the rapper — real name Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty — should be deported to Trinidad and Tobago, where she was born before being raised in Queens, N.Y.

From Los Angeles Times