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Ellen

American  
[el-uhn] / ˈɛl ən /
Or Ellin

noun

  1. Mount, a mountain in S Utah. 11,522 feet (3,514 meters).

  2. a female given name, form of Helen.


Example Sentences

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Ellen Kaufman said when she was first navigating her husband's new reality, there were less programs available.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

"We are very, very disappointed on behalf of our client. One can imagine how he feels," one of his two defence lawyers, Ellen Holager Andenæs, told Norwegian media.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

When Lois Neville and Ellen Boudreau-Den Herder became co-executive directors of the Hollywood Fringe Festival in early 2020, their first job, Neville likes to joke, was to cancel it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Ellen Meade, an associate professor of economics at Duke University, said she thinks Warsh will want to demonstrate at his first press conference that there is a “new world” at the Fed.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

Our correspondent naïvely says that even Ellen Terry could not be so winningly attractive as some of these grubby-faced little children pretend—and even imagine themselves—to be.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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