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Shriver

American  
[shrahy-ver] / ˈʃraɪ vər /

noun

  1. (Robert) Sargent, Jr. 1915–2011, U.S. businessman and government official: first director of the U.S. Peace Corps, 1961–66.


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Shriver used her time in Sacramento to revamp the state history museum, build the world’s largest Women’s Conference and launch a program during the recession to provide low-income working families with financial resources.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

“You beat me 18 straight times, therefore you can beat cancer 19 straight if you have to,” wrote Pam Shriver, who lost 19 of her 22 career matches against Evert.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Author and activist Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, offered a pointed post on X, saying the facility is suffering because "no one wants to perform there any longer" and that "everybody's canceling."

From Barron's Feb. 2, 2026

But in her novel, rather than satirize or steamroll, Shriver takes her open-armed and open-borders characters as seriously and empathetically as her anti-immigration ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

Watts Hill, Jr., chairman of Home Security Life Insurance, and a member of one of Durham’s leading families, defended the head of Operation Breakthrough in a letter to OEO director Sargent Shriver.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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