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Lenore

American  
[luh-nawr, -nohr] / ləˈnɔr, -ˈnoʊr /
Also Lenora

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Eleanor.


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The man’s mind, we know from the poem, is consumed with grief for his lost love, Lenore, and terror that her ghost has come seeking entrance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

But that is something that the married couple Profs Lenore and Manuel Blum, both emeritus professors at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, believe will change, possibly quite soon.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

Lenore actually runs an underground resistance society known as “The Daughters,” a witty Ruffin-esque turn on other so-called societies using those words.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Hanauer and his mother Lenore held a minority investment in the Reign when the Predmores relocated the club to Tacoma in January 2019.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

Lenore meets us at the community center and I see the nurse from Jamison who helped me when I hit my head.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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