Alma
Americannoun
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a town in southeastern Quebec, in southeastern Canada.
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a first name: from a Latin word meaning “kind.”
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The 81-year-old has played Queen Elizabeth, Alfred Hitchcock's wife and collaborator Alma Reville, and more recently the author Patricia Highsmith in "A Talent for Murder."
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Nothing fits together,” Alma says at one point, but they do in a funny way—not rationally, but intuitively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Alma Ronen has been fighting in the Israeli military nearly constantly for more than two years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
In her statement, Alma Hunter said she "fully trusted" Bush when she bought a plan with Legacy so her children did not have to arrange her funeral when she died.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Ava walked in just after two-thirty carrying a yellow bag and told Alma it was time to go.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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