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Marilyn

American  
[mar-uh-lin] / ˈmær ə lɪn /
Or Marilynne

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Mary.


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"We worked hard at it, and in the end, I threw it away because what was coming through Dakota playing Marilyn Monroe was so much more moving, human, alive."

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

—Ms. Crowther is the author of “Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

The scan was performed at the Yale Chemical and Biophysical Imaging Center by former Peabody Museum senior preparator Marilyn Fox.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

For more than an hour, attorney Marilyn Bednarski peppered L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Collected in hopes of telling what Marilyn always calls the “real” story of what happened.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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