Maura

[mawr-uh]

noun

1. a female given name, Irish form of Mary.

Example Sentences

True to her name, Marioneta is a puppet whose look is immediately recognizable as that of Carmen Maura’s character Pepa in Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.”

From Los Angeles Times

Justice Maura McGowan said he caused "huge economic loss" and damaged trust after he used his mobile phone to remove material from a computer system and transfer it to his private computer on 24 August 2022.

From BBC

And Maura Kelly, the writer who has taken antidepressants for many years, said that because depression is so complex, the prescription of antidepressants should be done by psychiatrists alone: “I don’t think primary care docs should be allowed to prescribe antidepressants.”

From Salon

Maura Kelly, a writer who has described her experience with antidepressants in The Atlantic, told Undark by email that the drugs helped her feel less despair and rebuild many aspects of her life.

From Salon

In a speech in nearby Concord on Saturday morning, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey planned to make the parallel to current events explicit: “We see things that would be familiar to our revolutionary predecessors: the silencing of critics, the disappearing of people from our streets, demands for unquestioning fealty… Together, we will protect the freedoms that were won here. We will defend the rule of law. We will claim our freedom of speech. And we will not be intimidated by the words or actions of a would-be king.”

From Slate