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Gwendolyn

American  
[gwen-dl-in] / ˈgwɛn dl ɪn /

noun

  1. a female given name: from a Welsh word meaning “white.”


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For Gwendolyn Sanford and Brandon Jay, a married couple raising a 16-year-old and a 9-year-old, the emotional weight has been just as significant as the financial burden that followed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2026

Jay, and his wife, Gwendolyn Sanford, who work together as a composing team, lost their Altadena home, music studio and over 150 instruments and pieces of recording gear in the Eaton fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

For Conservative voter Gwendolyn Slover, 69, from Summerside in the province of Prince Edward Island, his appeal is "baffling".

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025

Woods, who is based in Chicago, said she felt resonance between Gwendolyn Brooks’s street-level feel for that city and Coleman’s Los Angeles.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

The usual funeral line was moving down the aisle, only a few people left to take one last look at Gwendolyn Brown.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds

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