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Sheelah

American  
[shee-luh] / ˈʃi lə /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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Bill and Sheelah Black have tailored their spending to their investment portfolio’s performance since retiring to New Orleans 10 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 10, 2025

Lead author, Dr Sheelah Connolly, said similarities and differences between the two jurisdictions provided an opportunity to examine how different systems and policies influence outcomes.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2022

Sheelah Kolhatkar profiled him in the New Yorker in 2018.

From The Verge Mar. 4, 2020

Siddhartha Mukherjee writes about the advantages and disadvantages of the use of automation in medical diagnoses, and Sheelah Kolhatkar chronicles the ways in which industrial robots have replaced workers in factories across the country.

From The New Yorker Oct. 13, 2019

Sheelah wished for children, "to have the crathurs to spake to," she said, "and comfort us when we'd get ould an' helpless."

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

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