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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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Crimson pleather booths line the walls, which are covered with vintage beer signs and framed portraits of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe … and Guy Fieri, who visited in 2008.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

“The actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death,” attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter shared.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

“There’s a sense of glamour and desolation about Lila that makes me think of Marilyn Monroe,” said the writer Daphne Merkin, who hired Raicek to be her research assistant in 2006.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The study was led by Marilyn Rampersad Mackiewicz, an associate professor of chemistry in the OSU College of Science.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

I already know that nobody—not her or Marilyn or anybody—will ever understand, but I’m hoping you do.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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