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Malinda

American  
[muh-lin-duh] / məˈlɪn də /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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“Like Malinda Russell, I, too, am on a quest for freedom—to be freed from the confines of what is expected of me, cooking while Black in twenty-first-century America,” she wrote.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2025

"This is a low-income area, people are not rich here, and people will exploit opportunities for income," explains Malinda Gardiner from Conservation South Africa.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

Until 2018, he was unaware that the co-founders of Patagonia, Malinda and Yvon Chouinard, were devoted fans who had spent years recommending the book to anyone who would listen.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2023

Malinda Lo is a Chinese American lesbian immigrant who primarily writes Sapphic YA fantasy and historical fiction.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2022

A detailed account of the ceremonies of an initiation into Malinda is contained in Chapter XVI.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

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