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Carolyn

American  
[kar-uh-lin] / ˈkær ə lɪn /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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He earned a law degree there four years later, and it was at Stanford that he met his wife, Carolyn Reyes, who became a physician.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Guyanese ex-foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett narrowly led the second round of the secret process to pick the next UN chief.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Graduate students Carolyn Dundes and Rayyan Jokhai are co-first authors of the research.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Screens and a lack of friendly workers has turned off customers such as Carolyn Blue, an attorney from Charleston, S.C., and lifelong McDonald’s fan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

By then, Mrs Carolyn Barnet's days of influence over his lordship were well over - indeed, the lady had ceased to be a visitor at Darlington Hall altogether.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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