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Sian

/ ʃjɑːn /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Xi'an

“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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At Dartmouth College, another of the schools invited to join the compact, President Sian Beilock wrote that she is “deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence.”

The inquest in Ruthin also heard from speech therapist Sian George, who said that trained staff would know what foods were high risk.

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However, with a handful of seasonal residents living there temporarily, as wardens, for some of the year, Sian described it as being "very much a living community".

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Sian Jones, 72, has suffered from recurrent "debilitating" urinary tract infections for more than 50 years, and has lost two premature babies as a result.

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The 23-year-old's former partner Sian Banks, also from Liverpool, was jailed for five years earlier this year.

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