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Clea

American  
[klee-uh] / ˈkli ə /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Cleopatra.


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Beauty founder Patrick Starrr, fashion designer Aimee Song and the Home Edit’s organizational gurus Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin are some of DBA’s clients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

"He wanted to dispel the fairy tale," Clea Newman Soderlund says about her father Paul Newman's decision to embark on writing a memoir.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2022

“I thought he was Superman, until my early 20s and even after that,” said Clea Newman Soderlund, the youngest of the actor’s five daughters.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

Newman, who died in 2008, had three daughters with his second wife, fellow actor Joanne Woodward: Nell, Lissy and Clea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

Plutarch gathered about him a learned circle of women, of whom the chief was Clea, the clever matron of Delphi, to whom he dedicated several of his works, and Eurydice, who enjoyed his instruction.

From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll

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