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Geraldine

American  
[jer-uhl-deen] / ˈdʒɛr əlˌdin /

noun

  1. a female given name: derived from Gerald.


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Geraldine Weiss, the newsletter’s late founding editor, based her investment strategy on dividends because “a clever accountant can make earnings appear good or not so good, depending on the season or the objective,” she wrote.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

Once an aspiring journalist himself, Horwitz is the son of former Journal foreign correspondents Tony Horwitz and Geraldine Brooks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

The interim Victims of Crime Commissioner, Geraldine Hanna, welcomed the PSNI's announcement which put the needs of victims at the centre.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

The former vice president worked with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks to shape the memoir, which Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp said reads “like a suspense novel.”

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

Similarly, we always agreed Miss Geraldine herself shouldn’t hear a word of what we’d found out, since she’d get alarmed to no good purpose.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro