Fatima
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a.d. 606?–632, daughter of Muhammad and wife of Ali.
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the seventh and last wife of Bluebeard, popularly a symbol for feminine curiosity.
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a female given name.
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The building also had some offices and Fatima, a 40-year-old business owner who worked there, was elsewhere at the time of the strike.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The success of artificial intelligence has increased investors’ appetite for technologies that once seemed futuristic, Citibank analyst Fatima Boolani said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Fatima bowled Ghosh in her final over, but conceded seven runs in extras, while Deepti finished with 12 from nine deliveries.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
For Fatima, a practicing Muslim who adores her parents, the stakes feel even higher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Fatima and Mohammad go back to their work, and the morning drags.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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The prophecy has drawn renewed attention since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the roughly 500 young Ukrainians who made the trip to World Youth Day in Lisbon this week started their pilgrimage in Fátima.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
For the Arlington delegation, it will begin with two days at the Shrine at Fátima, where in 1917 three youngsters reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
There an AP reporter found Maria de Fátima da Costa, 60, knee-deep in the river, cleaning a wooden plank.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
We went to Fátima and participated in a Mass with what looked like more than 100,000 people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
Thus he writes Sura, Amína, Fátima, Madína, Taháma; yet, inconsistently enough, he gives the h' in Allah, Khadijah, Kaabah, Makkah, and many other words.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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