Effie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“The client’s trading generates commissions that help pay for these tools that the adviser benefits from,” said Effie Antonoudi, an assistant professor of financial planning at the University of Georgia.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
“We need to find a way to bring Effie the ghost to Houston with us,” Hoiberg said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
"The air defence systems operated but did not intercept the missile, we will investigate the incident and learn from it," military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin wrote on X.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
The search for Condon’s Molina/Kendall was as extensive as the one he did for Effie in his film version of “Dreamgirls” 20 years earlier, the role that famously went to singer Jennifer Hudson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
“I was onto Love Simpson from the beginning,” skinny old Miss Effie Belle Tate told Mama after the elopement.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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