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Shari

American  
[shahr-ee, shar-ee] / ˈʃɑr i, ˈʃær i /

noun

  1. French Chari.  a river in northern central Africa, flowing northwest from the Central African Republic into Lake Chad. 1,400 miles (2,254 km) long.

  2. a female given name.


Shari British  
/ ˈʃɑːrɪ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Chari

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Right now, there’s just this very delicate seesaw sitting and neither side is really rising to the top,” said Shari Hensrud, chief investment officer at MissionSquare.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Shari and I were kind of hoping that we were going to come out of that meeting with the news that the show was going to be killed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Media mogul Shari Redstone and superstar Dwayne Johnson were among those who attended the ceremony when Ratner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in early 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Shari Redstone, the former majority shareholder in CBS News parent Paramount, also publicly expressed her support for Dokoupil at the time.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Two cantors, one of whom was David’s sister, Shari Preston, stepped forward and sang.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

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