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Jessica

American  
[jes-i-kuh] / ˈdʒɛs ɪ kə /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Jesse.


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"While higher gas prices can spur interest in electrified vehicles, they typically need to be sustained or more pronounced to drive a meaningful shift," said Jessica Caldwell, head of insights at Edmunds.

From Barron's

Her six daughters—Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah—became known in the English press as “the Mitford girls.”

From The Wall Street Journal

A case in point was Sydney’s second-youngest, Jessica, born in 1917, who determined to live as differently as possible from her English family.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the biographer and literary scholar Carla Kaplan recounts in “Troublemaker,” Jessica started an escape plan early, opening a bank account at 12 to build up running-away funds.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1937 Jessica eloped to Europe with her second cousin Esmond Romilly—their ill-starred plan was to head to Spain to report on the civil war there.

From The Wall Street Journal