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Boris

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[bawr-is, bohr-, bor-, buh-ryees] / ˈbɔr ɪs, ˈboʊr-, ˈbɒr-, bʌˈryis /

noun

  1. a male given name.


Example Sentences

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Is the game I take my young son Boris to play every Sunday really that safe?

From BBC

As I stood with my dad and brother Tom - both former England players - watching one of my son Boris' matches, we saw one of his team-mates coming off the field for an HIA.

From BBC

The factory near Munich, which was opened by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius in February, is one of at least 10 that Ukrainian and European defense companies plan to get online by the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal

On a bridge next to the Kremlin on a drizzly Friday morning, a lone Russian police officer stood looking at the half-dozen bunches of flowers laying in memory of slain opposition figure Boris Nemtsov.

From Barron's

A physicist by education, Nemtsov rose to fame in the 1990s as a young, liberal provincial governor, and was widely tipped to take over from Boris Yeltsin.

From Barron's