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Harriet

American  
[har-ee-uht] / ˈhær i ət /
Also Harriette,

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Harry.


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GB captain Anne Keothavong has instead selected Sonay Kartal, Harriet Dart, Jodie Burrage and 17-year-old Mika Stojsavljevic for the contest that will be staged in Melbourne on 10-11 April.

From BBC

Harriet Cross, Conservative MP for Gordon and Buchan, said she had written to the CMA asking for an investigation into price increases.

From BBC

“We build the sandcastles of our loves and fancy them fortresses of granite,” Ms. Popova writes of the failing relationship between Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife, Harriet, whom he would soon leave for the precocious Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.

From The Wall Street Journal

He praised John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” for its descriptions of capitalist exploitation and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for the light it shed on slavery in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

Reverend Lyman Granger told his dear friend, Reverend Lemuel Clark, that three local sisters were helping him speak to his daughter, Harriet.

From Literature