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Clarinda

American  
[kluh-rin-duh] / kləˈrɪn də /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Clara.


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The process can be long and costly: the department was recently ordered to reinstate and shell out $195,000 in back pay to a Clarinda prison employee who the board ruled was wrongly terminated in 2017.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

“Am I Cardi B? I’m no Cardi B,” said Hickey, a stay-at-home mother living in Clarinda, Iowa, referring to the rapper.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2019

Each year, as the game evolves, with the evolution of video, advanced metrics and regimented year-round training, programs like the one in Clarinda find it harder to survive.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2016

The state Department of Corrections currently has operations at Clarinda and Mount Pleasant, which houses two of the state’s four mental health institutions.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2015

At the same time, amid the fustian of the letters there are forcible and true expressions, and the love-verses that he wrote upon Clarinda are among the most moving in the language.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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