Loy
noun
a female given name.
Loy
American
[loi]
/ lɔɪ /
noun
loy
British
/ lɔɪ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of loy
C18: from Irish Gaelic láí
Example Sentences
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Local government agencies are not obligated to post public records online, with a few exceptions, according to David Loy, legal director at the nonprofit First Amendment Coalition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Should the market now be questioning the planned closure dates of other major coal-fired electricity generation plants in Australia—Yallourn in 2028, Bayswater 2031-33, and Loy Yang by 2035?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
“Agencies owe a duty to the public to be more proactive and more transparent, even than the bare minimum letter of the law might allow them to get away with,” Loy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
"We show that this environmentally important redox reaction is not solely chemical," says Alexander Loy, research group leader at CeMESS, the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2025
“I heard that Myrna Loy checked into the Casa Marina last night!” he told me.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
That practice has become so common that it yielded its own name in Khmer—bingvul loy, or “cycling money.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
A loy krathong is traditionally offered to the river goddess to apologize for the pollution, to thank her for watering the rice and to ask her to carry away hopes and sorrows.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2012
I asked, taking my eyes off the muddy water and my beautiful loy krathong, which was iced with banana leaves, yellow carnations and purple orchids, then stuffed with three incense sticks and a yellow candle.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2012
His friends finally saved the situation by carrying away and loy ally consuming presents of bear meat until the supply was exhausted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before Descartes la loy de nature and la loy de la nature were synonymous, although the first was more common.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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