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Patricia

American  
[puh-trish-uh, -tree-shuh] / pəˈtrɪʃ ə, -ˈtri ʃə /

noun

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


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Lady Justice Patricia Nyaundi added that Duale knew and understood that all construction at the Nanyuki site had to stop - yet he allowed it to continue.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Patricia Pierrot said she had stopped taking the bus entirely, calling it "too stifling".

From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026

Hundreds of years later, when Wyck and Patricia dig up his coffin, they find him inside, very much alive but lacking sufficient answers.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2026

“So if this were complete lawlessness by the government, it couldn’t be stopped?” pressed Judge Patricia Millett, an Obama appointee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

“You’ve been talking about making more copies of those papers for months,” Patricia Ellsberg told her husband when he returned from Washington.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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