Lara

British

/ ˈlɑːrə /

noun

Brian Charles. born 1969,Trinidadian cricketer: scored 11,953 runs in 131 test matches (1990–2006) for the West Indies; holder of records for highest individual score in first-class cricket (501 not out for Warwickshire, 1994) and for highest test innings (400 not out against England, 2004)

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Trump’s son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara joined the tour.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Child Protection Policy Director Almudena Lara said the data highlighted both progress and "the scale of the problem that still needs to be addressed".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Those clients included Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, who launched Kalshi in 2018.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

“Wildfire survivors came to us for help, and we followed the facts,” said Ricardo Lara, California’s Insurance Commissioner.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

“Says here,” Lara continues, squinting at her phone, “that boogeypeople date back seven hundred years to the war with the Night Brothers.”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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