Sapphira
Americannoun
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a woman who, with her husband, Ananias, was struck dead for lying. Acts 5.
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Also Sapphire a female given name.
noun
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In a season that had the most Latina queens in “RuPaul’s Drag Race” herstory, Sapphira Cristál felt right at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Sapphira Cristál may be the runner-up, but she doesn’t need a crown to know she’s regal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
“What does critical race theory mean to you?” pointedly asked Sapphira Lloyd, a 16-year-old Black student who attends Millwood Public Schools in Oklahoma City.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
The library retains the fading, hand-stamped cards listing in longhand the books that Cather and Lewis withdrew between 1937-1947, during the time that Cather wrote and published her last novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2018
Sapphira having expressed herself as satisfied, Beelzebub continued.
From Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by John Kendrick Bangs
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