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Marlene

American  
[mahr-leen, -lay-nuh] / mɑrˈlin, -ˈleɪ nə /
Also Marleen

noun

  1. a female given name.


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"It's terrible," said Marlene Leon, 33, another marcher.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Marlene Cooper has paid $100 a week to get a box of five meals from Blue Apron for the last decade, delighting in dinners like chicken enchilada skillet and cilantro paneer and chickpea curry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

It verifies Gloria’s singing talent and proves a perfect match for her showy, cagey persona: the love child of Marlene Dietrich and Sally Bowles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

But in the race to take on Feely, Amish Shah, an emergency room physician, is leading Marlene Galán-Woods, a former broadcast journalist whom Democrats’ House campaign arm had endorsed.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

As we ate our steaming potato soup that night, Marlene eyed us through the window, the end of her trunk exploring the glass.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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