Rebecca

American

[ri-bek-uh] / rɪˈbɛk ə /

noun

a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “binding.”
Douay Bible. Rebekah.

Rebecca British

/ rɪˈbɛkə /

noun

Douay spelling: Rebekah. Old Testament the sister of Laban, who became the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob (Genesis 24–27)

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The ladies who replaced Rebecca and Kayla looked super jazzed; my guy seemed less impressed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

“People are saying, ‘I just want the security of knowing what my energy prices are going to be,’” said Rebecca Dibb-Simkin, chief product officer at Octopus Energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Among them is Rebecca Hutchinson's son Freddie, whom she lost in 2025.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

A recent Brookings Institute report, though, showed the opposite: that kids who use a lot of AI “are not thinking for themselves,” as Rebecca Winthrop, one of the study’s authors, told NPR.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

“He’s pretty efficient,” Rebecca says, with a laugh.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

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