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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

And the lore of Eberly and the Clarinda A’s continued to grow.

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

The composition of the pudding she has, however, promised Clarinda, that if she pleases her in marriage, she shall be told without reserve.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest