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Gail

American  
[gayl] / geɪl /

noun

  1. a female or male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy.”


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Randy Gail Sperino was last seen alive on the evening of 9 November 1993, as she was getting into a pickup truck in Granite City, Illinois.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

“It was fun watching the skepticism of those who didn’t believe in the 100% commission idea,” Gail Liniger told the Colorado Springs Gazette in 1992.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Together, Gail and Dave Liniger popularized an unorthodox business model, in which agents kept 100% of commissions in exchange for paying a fee to Remax for advertising and other management costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Steinem had a “gift for empathy,” New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote when the feminist icon turned 80 in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Of the twenty-seven tables, up to six are usually mine at any time, though on slow afternoons or if Gail is off, I sometimes have the whole place to myself.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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