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Eliza

American  
[ih-lahy-zuh] / ɪˈlaɪ zə /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Elizabeth.


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Eliza “can be ‘read’ through many lenses,” write the eight authors of “Inventing Eliza.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The Eliza effect may refer to an overattribution of human smarts to AI.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Woods led from the start in her home city, although Noemi Alphonse of Mauritius and Australia's Eliza Ault-Connell kept her honest over the first couple of laps.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

So he could get Eliza and Theo their freedom papers.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

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