Marcia

American  

[mahr-shuh] / ˈmɑr ʃə /

noun

1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “warlike.”

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Example Sentences

When Marcia Mantell started her retirement consulting business 20 years ago, the most anyone could get in Social Security was $1,982 a month, which today is closer to the average payout.

From MarketWatch

In a letter to the Journal responding to our earlier editorials, National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt says the climate science chapter co-published with the FJC and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was rigorously reviewed by an oversight committee and reflects the “best available scientific evidence.”

From The Wall Street Journal

If Lewisham-born Lindo takes home the prize, he'll be the first actor to win an Oscar without an earlier nomination since Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock in 2001.

From BBC

Mr. Coppola, in the author’s account, was incapable of remaining faithful to his long-suffering wife, Eleanor, and Mr. Lucas is shown constantly belittling his first wife, the film editor Marcia Lucas, even as she gets an Oscar nomination for cutting “American Graffiti” and wins one for “Star Wars.”

From The Wall Street Journal

That it came to TV more than two decades after the fact aided in our understanding of the phenomenon less as a murder trial than an unscripted soap opera playing out in front of our eyes, casting otherwise anonymous prosecutors Christopher Darden and Marcia Clark as either heroes or villains.

From Salon